Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today amid charges by the opposition that the government was stalling appointments to the higher judiciary
Notwithstanding the letters written by the collegium members to the CJI, which had come into the public domain, the centre disregarded the recommendation about Justice Joseph.
Besides making recommendation of elevation of advocates as judges in different high court, the apex court collegium also gave its nod for making 25 additional judges as permanent judges of five high courts.
SC collegium will take a call on appointing 40 new judges to nine courts, a senior functionary said even as 106 judges have been appointed to the constitutional courts this year.
The Collegium is headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra and has four senior-most judges of the apex court --Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph.
A Lucknow judge's appointment was recalled by the Supreme Court collegium after allegation of corruption in awarding bail to Gayatri Prajapati.
The Supreme Court collegium has finalised the memorandum of procedure (MoP) for appointment of judges to constitutional courts.
Putting an end to the tension between the government and judiciary over the appointment of High Court judges, the Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India JS Khehar on Monday recommended nine names to the government for the role of ch
Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today asserted the process of appointment of judges cannot be hijacked.
The Supreme Court collegium has reiterated its recommendation for 37 names for appointment as High Court judges out of the 43 names returned to it by the government for reconsideration.
In another flashpoint in the ongoing tussle between the central government and the judiciary, the Supreme Court on Friday said that it has not accepted the government’s decision to reject 43 of the 77 names recommended by the collegium.
The government today told the Supreme Court that it had cleared 34 out of 77 names recommended by the Collegium for appointment in High Court.
Chief Justice of India Justice TS Thakur's attempts to pacify Justice Jasti Chelameswar, one of the five senior most judges of the Supreme Court, who had on Thursday did not take part in Collegium’s meeting to discuss various issues including the Mem
New Delhi: The government and judiciary are at loggerheads once again, this time over appointment of a high court chief justice with Centre rejecting Supreme Court collegium’s recommendation twice. According to a report by
In what could trigger a fresh round of confrontation between the Executive and the Judiciary, the Supreme Court collegium has questioned the governments right to reject its recommendation on the ground of national interest.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that the judges of higher courts should consider cutting down on their holidays in order to deal with the huge load of pending cases in courts, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today blamed the liti
The Supreme Court collegium will respond next week to government on the revised memorandum of procedure
New Delhi: Coming out with a slew of guidelines to improve the collegium system of appointment of judges, the Supreme Court today said views of the Centre and States should be taken into account and
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce tomorrow the verdict on bringing transparency in the collegium system of appointing judges in higher judiciary.The collegium system of judges appointing judges, which had come into
New Delhi: Over a month after the Supreme Court struck down a law on appointment of judges to the higher judiciary, the government today asserted in Lok Sabha that Parliament has "power" to "govern" the
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