The Union government sent back 19 of the recommendations mere hours before the Supreme Court hearing on judicial appointments on November 28, a report says. Ten of them are names the SC had reiterated.
The government expressed "strong reservations" about the recommended names as it sent back the files to the collegiums on November 25, sources aware of the procedure to appoint Supreme Court and high court judges said. Out of the 20 cases, 11 were fresh cases and nine were reiterations made by the top court collegiums, they
A bench of the top court suggested that the government is perhaps holding back some appointments because it is "not happy" that the top court struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission.
RAJYA SABHA: YSR Congress Party MP V Vijayasai Reddy on Friday introduced a private member's bill in the Rajya Sabha seeking a constitutional amendment to revive the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC). It may be recollected that in 2015, the Supreme Court overturned a government decision to set up a National Judicial Appointments Commission. Speaking in the Rajya