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  Delhi HC gets six new judges, effective strength now 40

  India | July 21, 2025 11:27 IST

  The newly-appointed judges include, Justices V Kameswar Rao, Nitin Wasudeo Sambre, Vivek Chaudhary, Anil Kshetrapal, Arun Kumar Monga and Om Prakash Shukla.

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  SC Collegium raises concern over Centre overlooking names recommended for judges' appointment

  India | March 22, 2023 20:17 IST

  The collegium, headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, said notification for the elevation of persons recommended earlier in point of time should be issued at the earliest.

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  Centre vs Judiciary: Judges don't face elections or public scrutiny, says Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

  India | January 23, 2023 21:29 IST

  Rijiju has been vocal in the criticism of the collegium system for the appointment of judges and even termed it alien to the Constitution.

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  SC witnesses open 'turf-war' between judiciary, executive: Here's what happened in apex court today

  India | May 04, 2018 19:45 IST

  The strong remarks by the bench came after Venugopal said though the court was dealing with a matter relating to the vacancy of judges in the high courts of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura, the fact was that the Collegium has been recommending only three names for high courts where the vacancy was for 40 judges.

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  If polity supports, will resolve judges' appointment issue: Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

  India | January 04, 2018 22:49 IST

  The Supreme Court had rejected the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and the 99th constitutional amendment, which provided for the formation of the Commission.

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  Justice Karnan's case calls for reviewing judges' selection process, says SC

  India | July 06, 2017 10:06 IST

  Justice C S Karnan's case calls for revisiting the process of selection of judges to the constitutional courts, Justices J Chelameswar and Justice Ranjan Gogoi of the Supreme Court have said

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  Govt proposes NEET-like exam to recruit judges in subordinate courts

  India | June 12, 2017 11:57 IST

  The proposal comes close on the heels of several states, including some ruled by the BJP, opposing the formation of an all-India judicial service, a 60-year-old idea

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  Judiciary needs to be independent, process of judges' appointment cannot be 'hijacked': CJI

  India | December 01, 2016 23:51 IST

  Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today asserted the process of appointment of judges cannot be hijacked.

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  Appointment of 125 High Court judges put on hold after NJAC notification

  India | April 15, 2015 11:01 IST

  New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has decided not to process further about 125 pending cases for appointments of judges to various High Courts. This came a day after the government notified the National Judicial Appointments

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  Govt may not immediately notify law to scrap collegium system

  India | January 04, 2015 10:29 IST

  New Delhi: A new law to replace the much-criticised collegium system is likely to be brought into force only after two eminent persons who would be part of the proposed high-level commission are nominated.Besides nominating

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  Collegium system of judges' appointment 'opaque', says Sibal

  India | May 13, 2013 14:19 IST

  New Delhi, May 13: Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal Monday said that the present collegium system of appointment of judges was "opaque" and "non-transparent", but nothing could be done to change it overnight."Present (collegium) system

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  SC To Decide If Criteria For Judges' Appointment Be Made Public

  India | November 26, 2010 12:49 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 26 : A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court would examine whether a citizen is entitled to know the criteria adopted for appointment and transfer of judges of high courts and the