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Why is there friction between the government and the judiciary? -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-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...

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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...

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Pegasus: Mamata appoints Lokur for a judicial probe into the scandal -R Balaji

-The Telegraph The ex-judge, who has often found himself at odds with the Narendra Modi government, said that he was yet to receive the formal notification from Bengal govt Justice Madan B. Lokur, whom the Mamata Banerjee government appointed on Monday to a two-member judicial probe into the Pegasus controversy, has often found himself at odds with the Narendra Modi government. So much so that last October, the Centre had rushed to stall...

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Eminent individuals oppose the appointment of Justice Arun Mishra as Chairperson of NHRC

-Press release by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) dated 2nd June, 2021 We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the Prime Minister. What is troubling  is that the decision to appoint Justice Arun Kumar Mishra as NHRC...

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