{"id":34733,"date":"2018-10-31T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34733"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:35:08","slug":"sc-lifts-veil-on-collegium-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-lifts-veil-on-collegium-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"SC lifts veil on Collegium recommendations:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/sc-lifts-veil-on-collegium-recommendations\/article19815874.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SC lifts veil on Collegium recommendations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has resolved to go public with all its recommendations to the government on judicial appointments, transfers and elevations to the High Courts and Supreme Court.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the new state of affairs?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recommendations will be uploaded on the Supreme Court&#8217;s official website.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Collegium is also going to <\/span><b>indicate the reasons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for which it has decided to recommend or reject names for appointment, transfer or elevation to the High Courts and the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has already posted <\/span><b>online detailed reasons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for its October 3, 2017 recommendations for judicial appointments to the Madras HC and the Kerala HC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What does indicating the reason mean?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means every time the collegium forwards the names of candidates to the government for appointment as judges, it would automatically place the names and the reasons for the recommendation before the public.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why such steps have been taken?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stating the reason for recommendations will counter the allegations that was earlier put on the collegium.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The allegations were such that the collegium has, under political pressure, cleared the names of individuals who turned out to be inefficient and sometimes corrupt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, former judge K Chandru had questioned how retired Calcutta High Court judge CS Karnan \u2013currently serving a six-month jail sentence for contempt of court had made it through the collegium\u2019s appointment process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest row over the transfer and subsequent resignation of Justice Jayant Patel of Karnataka High Court has become one of the reason to bring in the transparency.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What were the criticism over functioning of collegium?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The criticism had grown after the Supreme Court struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission(NJAC) as unconstitutional in 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NJAC was proposed as a replacement for the collegium, which is made up of the chief justice of India and the top court\u2019s four most senior judges.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast, the Commission included the chief justice of India, the Supreme Court\u2019s two most senior judges, the law minister, and two \u201ceminent persons\u201d \u2013 who would be nominated by the chief justice, the prime minister and the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea behind it was to <\/span><b>make appointments to the higher judiciary more transparent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The collegium\u2019s decisions were a closely-guarded secret and beyond public scrutiny. They were also kept out of the purview of the Right to Information Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What will be the Centre\u2019s role now?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Placing collegium resolutions in the public domain, pressure is likely to build on the Union government to make its side of the process transparent as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the collegium\u2019s recommendations are usually accepted without objection, there have been instances of the Centre turning down names for reasons such as adverse intelligence inputs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC lifts veil on Collegium recommendations:\u00a0 Context The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has resolved to go public with all its recommendations to the government on judicial appointments, transfers and elevations to the High Courts and Supreme Court. What are the new state of affairs? The recommendations will be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-lifts-veil-on-collegium-recommendations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC lifts veil on Collegium recommendations:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704957706},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}