A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta issued a notice to the Centre on a plea filed by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms and tagged it with two similar pending petitions by Congress leaders Jaya Thakur and Sanjay Narayanrao Meshram.
This is the first time a consultative process to appoint an Election Commissioner is being used. It was put in place after a Supreme Court verdict and a new law. Here is what the change is, and what prompted it.