-The Hindu What is the trigger for the current conflict? Why did the Supreme Court strike down the law on National Judicial Appointments? What is the government’s grouse against the Collegium system? What is the new CJI planning? The story so far: A major confrontation is on between the Union government and the Supreme Court over the former’s resentment towards the Collegium system of Appointments and its push to have a dominant...
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Govt seeks to turn tables on collegium -R Balaji
-The Telegraph Centre said it had conveyed its stand on the points raised by the two-judge bench to the secretary-general of the apex court in a letter dated July 11, 2017, but had not received any response New Delhi: The Centre has sought to blame the delays in judges’ Appointments, for which the Supreme Court has repeatedly reprimanded it, on the collegium itself. The government invoked observations by a two-judge bench in 2017...
More »SC raps Centre again over judges Appointments, criticism of Collegium -Utkarsh Anand
-Hindustan Times The Centre and the top court have exchanged several sharp comments on the collegium system. The Supreme Court on Thursday yet again pulled up the Centre over delays in judges' Appointments as it stressed that the government must follow the collegium system, which is the law of the land. The court asked Attorney General R Venkataramani to advise Union Ministers to exercise control over their public criticism of the collegium...
More »Independence of EC destroyed by all govts, says SC -Utkarsh Anand
-Hindustan Times Successive governments have “completely destroyed” the independence of the Election Commission of India (ECI) by ensuring no chief election commissioner (CEC) gets the full six-year term to head the poll body since 1996, a Constitution bench in the Supreme Court lamented on Tuesday, adding that absence of a law for Appointment of election commissioners (ECs) has resulted in an “alarming trend”. The five-judge bench further remarked that the silence of...
More »Effort on to end job cash freeze -Pranesh Sarkar
-The Telegraph Have assured Giriraj of transparency, says Bengal minister Calcutta: Bengal panchayat minister Pradip Majumdar has said that he assured his Union counterpart Giriraj Singh that enough initiatives had been taken in Bengal to ensure the 100 days’ job scheme has transparency while urging him to release funds under the scheme soon. “The Union minister told me the Centre wants transparency in the implementation of the scheme. I assured him that enough...
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