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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court dismissed pleas challenging the appointment of advocate Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri as additional judge of the Madras High Court. Meanwhile, Justice Gowri was sworn in as an additional judge of the Madras HC even before the Supreme Court hearing was over. “We are not entertaining the writ petition. Dismissed, reasons to follow,” the special bench said while dismissing the plea. The top court’s decision came on a plea challenging Gowri’s recommendation as an additional judge and subsequent appointment considering her publicly expressed views showcasing alleged ...
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By Ritika Jain Earlier today, the Centre notified the appointment of advocate Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri as an additional judge of the Madras High Court, minutes before advocates from the Bar mentioned the matter in the Supreme Court seeking to stop the same. Gowri, a BJP leader, has publicly expressed communal bias and said Christian extremist groups which are more dangerous than Islamic terror groups must be called “White terror”. However, when the matter was mentioned again in the post-lunch session, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud—he also heads the collegium which is responsibl...
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By Ritika Jain Judicial vacancies are one of the leading causes for the rising pendency in cases, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha as he doubled down on his criticism of the collegium system. "The delay in appointment of judges is one of the main reasons for the almost "five crore" pending cases, Rijiju said during Question Hour in the upper house. The ongoing tiff between the Executive and the Supreme Court has intensified over the last few weeks with both sides exchanging barbs in court and in public. The government has limited say in filling judicial vacancies. The Centre does...
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By Ritika Jain Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said that in October 2016 Supreme Court undid a "historic parliamentary mandate" when it struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)—the Centre's flagship project. "There is no parallel to such a development in democratic history where a duly legitimised constitutional prescription has been judicially undone," Dhankar said in a direct attack on the Supreme Court. In his maiden speech before the Rajya Sabha, Dhankar sought to strike a balance between the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive, when he said de...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on Monday expressed its anguish over Law Minister Kiren Rijiju's "alien system" comment on the collegium system and called out the government for delaying the appointment of judges in the higher judiciary. The top court said the people may have reservations about the collegium system, but it was the law of the land and the Centre needed to adhere to it. Supreme Court reminded the Executive that its inaction on collegium proposals was not the way to express its alleged unhappiness just because the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) "did not pass muster...
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