<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court has directed all states, Union Territories and the high courts to apprise it on the status of vacancies of judicial officers as on June 30.<br />''<br />''A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi today sought the personal appearance of all state law secretaries and the Registrar Generals of high courts before it on July 31.<br />''<br />''The apex court, on October 22 last year, on its own had taken note of over 5,000 vacant posts of judicial officers in lower courts across the country and sought information from all the 24 high courts on it.<br />''<br />''The bench, also comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose took note of a report dealing with the central funding on the infrastructure of the subordinate judiciary.<br />''<br />''It said Solicitor General Tushar Mehta has been granted time until July 31 to interact with the concerned officials of the Union of India and to lay before the court the views of the Union of India with regard to the suggestions made by the Amicus Curiae on the infrastructure of lower courts. </span><br />