NEW DELHI: In a first, Jharkhand government has moved Supreme Court seeking contempt of court action against the Centre for its “deliberate and wilful” delay in implementing the SC collegium‘s July 11 resolution recommending appointment of Justice M S Ramachandra Rao as chief justice of the state, reported.In its petition, the Hemant Soren govt said…
NEW DELHI: “Sensitive material” with the Centre is holding up the implementation of the SC collegium‘s recommendations for appointments of chief justices of high courts, attorney general R Venkatramani told Supreme Court on Friday to explain what is impeding execution of the decisions taken by the collegium, which has the sole say in appointments to…
NEW DELHI: In a first-of-its-kind order relating to the three-decade-old judges-selecting-judges mechanism, Supreme Court Friday ruled that high court collegiums collectively decide on recommending names for appointment as HC judges and said a HC chief justice individually can’t take a call in this regard.A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Prashant K Mishra gave this…
NEW DELHI: Three working days after the Supreme Court collegium recommended two judges to be appointed to the top court, law ministry on Tuesday notified the elevation of Justice R Mahadevan, a judge of Madras high court, and Justice N Kotiswar Singh, chief justice of J&K and Ladakh HC, as judges of the apex court.In…
NEW DELHI: Justice N Kotiswar Singh and Justice R Mahadevan were elevated to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, announced by law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on X. Their appointments, approved by the President after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, will restore the apex court’s full strength of 34 judges, including the Chief Justice…
