{"id":147171,"date":"2021-11-17T20:18:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=147171"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T04:50:12","slug":"sc-collegiums-endorsement-of-saurabh-kirpal-as-delhi-hc-judge-is-very-welcome-govt-must-not-stand-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-collegiums-endorsement-of-saurabh-kirpal-as-delhi-hc-judge-is-very-welcome-govt-must-not-stand-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"SC collegium\u2019s endorsement of Saurabh Kirpal as Delhi HC judge is very welcome. Govt must not stand in the way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:\u00a0<\/strong>Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/collegium-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collegium<\/a> has recently recommended the name of Saurabh Kirpal as judge of Delhi High Court. If the government does not reject the name, then he will become India\u2019s first openly gay judge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were the challenges in his appointment?<\/strong><br \/>\n1) The initial reluctance of the collegium to recommend his name. 2) Opaque nature of collegium&#8217;s decision making process. 3) Government\u2019s objection that the Judge\u2019s partner is a foreign national and could lead to a conflict of interest and security risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the stand of the Supreme Court?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/navtej-singh-johar-ors-vs-uoi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navtej Johar versus Union of India<\/a> case, Supreme Court decriminalized consensual same-sex relationships and stated that it is a matter of personal choice, &#8220;an expression of their autonomy and self-determination&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should be the way forward?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Collegium has taken a bold step by recommending the name of Mr. Kirpal. This will promote the notion of equality of opportunity and nondiscrimination and help de-stigmatize homosexual minorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>SC collegium\u2019s endorsement of Saurabh Kirpal as Delhi HC judge is very welcome. Govt must not stand in the way&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0<strong>Indian Express\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>17th November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Supreme Court collegium has recently recommended the name of Saurabh Kirpal as judge of Delhi High Court. If the government does not reject the name, then he will become India\u2019s first openly gay judge. What were the challenges in his appointment? 1) The initial reluctance of the collegium to recommend his name. 2) Opaque nature&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-collegiums-endorsement-of-saurabh-kirpal-as-delhi-hc-judge-is-very-welcome-govt-must-not-stand-in-the-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC collegium\u2019s endorsement of Saurabh Kirpal as Delhi HC judge is very welcome. Govt must not stand in the way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-147171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704803668},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}