INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
high court judges and, yet again, the SC frowned upon the government's selective embrace of the apex court's picks.The SC said the
transferring four judges of Gujarat HC had not been acted upon.A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia, which has been
monitoring the progress in the appointment and transfer of judges in various HCs, said the Centre was sending a wrong signal by delaying
Transfers of 26 HC judges were pending before the government but after the court's intervention in September, the judges were transferred in
Do not do selective transfers, six transfers are still pending
as HC judges out of which five had been reiterated.In its order, the court also recorded its appreciation of Gujarat HC for delaying the
oath of a judge as the Centre did not clear the name of another candidate for judgeship when both had been recommended together by the
It also praised the Centre for then clearing the other name without delay.At the outset of the hearing, the AG sought adjournment for a week
saying that not much progress took place due to various reasons and assured the court that a decision on the pending recommendations would
The bench said it was difficult to convince a bright lawyer to accept judgeship if his seniority was not assured and he had to keep waiting
for his name to be cleared by the Centre
the Centre to clear all pending names within 24 hours but the bench deferred the hearing, hoping that the AG would be able to convince the
political roles: CJI Chandrachud on Justice Victoria GowriThe issue of appointment of judges has witnessed a tug of war between the Centre
and the judiciary with the government attacking the collegium system of appointment of judges to the higher judiciary, arguing that it
should also have a say in the process
recommendations and set a timeframe for the process.
