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Bone of contention: Govt’s representation in SC Collegium for transparency & accountability

By IndianMandarins- 16 Jan 2023
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New Delhi (16.01.2023): The Centre and the Supreme Court are at loggerheads for long and none is ready to blink. From Parliament to constitutional authorities, all are questioning the functioning of SC Collegium. Now, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju writes a letter to CJI to make a public representative as part of the selection process from the Centre for SC judges and from the State for HC judges. Rijiju calls it important for transparency and accountability as former SC judge Justice Ruma Pal too questioned the present Collegium system. The Vice President has gone to the extent of saying that rejection of NJAC was a compromise on Parliamentary sovereignty which was endorsed by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Birla further says that judiciary is infringing into the domain of Legislative. But the SC Collegium feels that the Government is trying to implement NJAC from the back door. Rijiju has been of the view that the Collegium system is not transparent, alien to the Constitution and is the only system in the world where judges select people known to them.

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