The Supreme Court collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar, is said to have approved about 90 names from among the pending names for appointment to higher posts of judiciary. The names cleared are those of lawyers and judicial officers. It is said to have also rejected about 40 percent of the total names recommended by collegiums of various high courts - almost all of them for reasons of lack of integrity. Among the names approved for appointments include those recommended by high court collegiums as well as names previously cleared by the Supreme Court collegium but returned by the Centre for different reasons, including Intelligence Bureau (IB) inputs on the unsuitability of candidates. One of the important features of the latest Supreme Court recommendation is that, though the government is yet to take a final call on contentious clauses in the new Memorandum of Procedure (MoP), the collegium has gone by the new MoP as laid down by the five-judge collegium sometime ago. While the old MoP had no age criterion for appointments to the higher judiciary, the collegium has gone by its unanimous recommendation to not recommend a lawyer below the age of 45 and above the age of 55 for appointment as judge of a high court. Similarly, in the case of pending names for the elevation of district and sessions judges to high court benches, the collegium has gone by the maximum age cap of 58 and half years. The age cap, incidentally, is one of the clauses in the draft MoP on which both the Supreme Court collegium and the Centre are on the same page.