The SC Collegium recommended five judicial officials Susan Valentine Pinto, Hasmukhbhai Dalsukhbhai Suthar, Jitendra Champaklal Doshi, Mangesh Rameshchandra Mengdey, and Divyeshkumar Amrutlal Joshi, to be appointed as judges of the Gujarat High Court.
Collegium system in India: "Initial recommendation made by Supreme Court collegium for appointment of judges to the top court and high courts need not be unanimous and could be by majority vote. But reiteration of name by the Supreme Court Collegium has to be unanimous," former CJI Lalit said.
Supreme Court collegium: The collegium, also having Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph, met on February 7 (Tuesday) and recommended the name of Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh for appointment as the chief justice of the Tripura High Court.
Representing the government, Attorney General R Venkataramani told a bench of Justices SK Kaul and AS Oka that warrant of appointment of these five names is likely to be issued soon.
While recommending his name, the Collegium is “conscious of the fact that in the seniority of Judges hailing from the Karnataka High Court, Mr Justice Aravind Kumar stands at Sl. No.02”, it said, adding that at present, the apex court is represented by two Judges from the Karnataka High Court.
Nariman was part of the Supreme Court collegium till he retired in August 2021. Rijiju has time and again questioned the collegium system of appointment of judges, noting that it was "opaque and not transparent".
He was responding to questions on some recent Supreme Court Collegium resolutions, which contained potions of IB and RAW reports on certain names recommended by the top court for appointment as high court judges, being made public last week.
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju shared the video of an interview of Justice RS Sodhi (retd), a former judge of the Delhi Court, saying it is the "voice of a judge" and that majority of people have similar "sane views".
Kirpal studied law at the University of Oxford and did his Master of Law at the University of Cambridge before returning to India following a brief stint at the United Nations in Geneva. He has been a practising lawyer for over two decades, including at the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court.
Centre vs SC Collegium: Reacting to this development, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that this is extremely dangerous. "There should be absolutely no government interference in the judicial appointments."
Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Rijiju said the total number of cases pending in various courts is about to touch five crore. He observed that the impact of such a huge pendency of court cases on the public is obvious.
The 5 judges who have been recommended are Justice Pankaj Mithal, Chief Justice, Rajasthan HC; Justice Sanjay Karol, Chief Justice, Patna HC; Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, Chief Justice, Manipur HC; Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Judge, Patna HC and Justice Manoj Misra,Judge, Allahabad HC.
SC on collegium meeting: According to reports, the plea had sought a copy of the agenda, a copy of the decisions, and a copy of the resolution of the Collegium meeting.
While hearing a matter about the protracted delay by the Centre in clearing the names recommended by the collegium, a bench headed by Justice S K Kaul said, before the last hearing, 19 names were sent back to the collegium by the government.
A bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said, "Nowadays, it has become a fashion to comment upon earlier decisions (of the collegium) made when they (former judges) were part of the collegium. We don't want to say anything on their comments.
The government expressed "strong reservations" about the recommended names as it sent back the files to the collegium on November 25, sources aware of the procedure to appoint Supreme Court and high court judges said.
Collegium system in India: CJI said November 26, 1959 was an important day because it was when the constituent assembly adopted the Constitution.
Collegium system in India: Law Minister explained that once the Supreme Court or a high court collegium sends recommendation, the government has to do due diligence.
According to a statement, SC Collegium in its meeting held on Monday approved proposal for elevation of following judicial officers as judges in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
In three separate Collegium resolutions, uploaded on Friday on the Supreme Court website, seven practicing advocates have been recommended for appointment as judges in the Delhi high court.
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