New Delhi: Continuing the stand-off between the judiciary and executive over appointment of judges, Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur told Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that 43 names of the judges that were rejected by the government have again been sent back for reconsideration by the Centre.
CJI made these observations while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) pertaining to the growing laxity in judicial appointments.
Earlier, Rohatgi had informed the Apex court that there were no files pending with Centre and all the 43 names were sent back by the Centre.
SC, while hearing the same petition on October 28, expressed concern and said that the centre had been sitting over the names of the appointed judges for over nine months. CJI Thakur said, “You cannot scuttle the working of the institution like this. Are you waiting for some revolutionary changes in the system?”
In December last, the Supreme Court had struck down a law that introduced the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) that would give government a say in appointment of judges.
Dismissing the NJAC proposal, the court had said that the government will come out with a MoP for new appointments.
But in the last few months, the government and the judiciary have not been able to agree on the guidelines to be incorporated in the MoP, resulting in the government using the opportunity to scuttle appointments.
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