Modi government is following a policy of deliberately withholding Collegium recommendations for months and years to keep the fate of named judges in limbo
Kiren Rijiju said – in response to Arvind Kejriwal's criticism of alleged government involvement in judicial affairs – that his letter to the CJI which had made headlines a day ago was him acting on the SC's 2015 directions.
The letter could be the latest flashpoint between the Centre and the judiciary who are at loggerheads over the mechanism to appoint Supreme Court and High Court judges.
The Congress has accused the Centre of "intimidating" the judiciary in a bid to "capture" it, after Law Minister Kiren Rijiju wrote to Chief Justice of India suggesting the inclusion of government representatives in the court collegiums.