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SC pushes for full strength, rejects rethink on new judges
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- Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the names of two judges to the apex court and rejected the government’s disapproval to the elevation of two others as top court judges.
- If the four judges are elevated without delay, the Supreme Court would reach the full sanctioned strength of 31.
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- What collegium said?(1) Collegium refused the government’s request to reconsider the elevate Jharkhand High Court and Guwahati High Court Chief Justices Aniruddha Bose and A.S. Bopanna respectively.(2) The Collegium said their names were recommended after considering all parameters.(3) The Collegium said there is no reason to agree with the government as there is nothing adverse found in the two judges’ conduct, competence or integrity.(4) Now, the government is bound to appoint Justices Bose and Bopanna to the Supreme Court.
- Supreme Court Collegium(1) The Collegium System is a system under which appointments/elevation of judges/lawyers to Supreme Court and transfers of judges of High Courts and Apex Court are decided by a forum of the CJI and the four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court.(2) Article 124 to 147 in Part V of the Indian Constitution envisages the powers, independence and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.(3) There is no direct mention of the Collegium either in the original Constitution of India or in successive amendments.(4) This system of appointment of judges came into existence after the Third Judges Case which interpreted constitutional articles on October 28, 1998.(5) As the work of the court increased and cases began to accumulate, parliament increased the number of judges(including CJI) from the original 8 in 1950 to 11 in 1956, 14 in 1960, 18 in 1978, 26 in 1986 and 31 in 2009 (current strength).
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The hindu