In recent weeks, a number of senior functionaries, including the law minister and the vice president, have spoken out against the collegium appointing judges in India. The government believes this system needs radical reform.
Efforts to infringe on the freedom of judiciary will not work, former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur told NDTV today in the backdrop of the judiciary's escalating friction with the government on the subject of judicial appointments.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea seeking a copy of the agenda, a copy of the decisions, and a copy of the resolution of a 2018 Collegium meeting and clarified that only a resolution drawn and signed by all the Collegium members could be said to be the final decision.