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Fourth branch should not be retirement homes for bureaucrats & judges: Justice Narsimha

By IndianMandarins- 23 Dec 2024
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New Delhi (23.12.2024): Delivering a lecture at National Law School of India, University in Bengaluru, Supreme Court Judge Justice P S Narsimha said that the fourth branch institutions such as Election Commission of India, CAG, Union and State Public Service Commission, National Commission for SCs, STs and OBCs should not be retirement homes for civil servants and judges.
“Domain expertise and capacity building are constant casualties in institutional structure. Diversity in composition is also overlooked in many cases. It is important to realise that fourth branch institutions can’t be retirement homes for civil servants and judges,” Justice Narsimha said.
He also underlined that the framers of the Constitution deliberately ensured that elections were conducted by a body that was completely outside the Executive. “In retrospect, we can conceive the disasters if this had not been done,” he added.

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