The Supreme Court collegium bends again? Offers no rationale. Too unfortunate.
The collegium, in fact, must start putting out the MoM in the public domain after taking any formal decision. The highest court of the land must have transparency as regards its own functioning. <<Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi, one of the senior-most high court chief justices in the country and who had remanded Amit Shah in CBI custody over a decade ago, does not figure on the list cleared for elevation to the Supreme Court by the collegium on Wednesday. The Supreme Court collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, formally cleared nine chief justices and judges of various high courts for the elevation. The list has been cleared less than a week after Justice R.F. Nariman, the third senior-most member of the Supreme Court collegium, retired. Justice Nariman was learnt to have insisted when he was part of the collegium that a senior judge like Justice Kureshi be elevated to the apex court before the other names were considered. As a result, there appeared to be a stalemate on the elevation of judges to the Supreme Court for several months, sources said. ... Justice Kureshi had sent Amit Shah, now Union home minister, to CBI custody in 2010 in a case related to the death of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh in an encounter that was then alleged to have been staged. Justice Kureshi, who was then senior judge in Bombay High Court, was named the Tripura High Court chief justice in 2019 after a deadlock between the then collegium and the Narendra Modi government. The collegium had initially chosen Justice Kureshi to preside over Madhya Pradesh High Court, which has 40 judges. ... Repeated efforts by The Telegraph to elicit comment from CJI Ramana on the reasons for excluding Justice Kureshi from the list did not yield results. A resolution uploaded by the Supreme Court on Wednesday did not refer to the factors taken into account while elevating the nine judges to the apex court.>> (Excerpted from: < https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/amit-shah-cbi-custody-judge-left-out-of-supreme-court-collegium/cid/1827123 >.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZiZfEyCuvBWBiWAsoiX0aviLBY_vjVckHsm1jRLqBM_og%40mail.gmail.com.
