NEW DELHI: The government is known to have returned to the College of the Supreme Court the names of 14 defenders it had recommended for their elevation as judges of the superior court.
Government sources said all names were returned with a request for reconsideration within a week, in late July and early August.
But the college’s highest court recommendations were made almost a year ago. In some cases, the recommendations were made more than a year ago.
The names of the elevation were made for the higher courts of Delhi, Calcutta, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka and Kerala, sources said without detail.
In written response to a question to Rajya Sabha during the monsoon session of Parliament, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju had said over the past year that the Supreme Court college recommended 80 names to be appointed judges of various high courts , of which 45 judges were appointed and the remaining proposals are in various stages of processing.
He had said that between July 1, 2020 and July 15, 2021, the college of the Supreme Court made 80 recommendations for the appointment of judges in various high courts.
Of these, 45 “recommended” were appointed by the government as high court judges and the “remaining proposals are in various stages of processing with the government and the SC College,” Rijiju had said.
India has 25 higher courts with a sanctioned force of 1,098 judges. The workforce on August 1 is 643, a deficit of 455 judges.
Government sources said all names were returned with a request for reconsideration within a week, in late July and early August.
But the college’s highest court recommendations were made almost a year ago. In some cases, the recommendations were made more than a year ago.
The names of the elevation were made for the higher courts of Delhi, Calcutta, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka and Kerala, sources said without detail.
In written response to a question to Rajya Sabha during the monsoon session of Parliament, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju had said over the past year that the Supreme Court college recommended 80 names to be appointed judges of various high courts , of which 45 judges were appointed and the remaining proposals are in various stages of processing.
He had said that between July 1, 2020 and July 15, 2021, the college of the Supreme Court made 80 recommendations for the appointment of judges in various high courts.
Of these, 45 “recommended” were appointed by the government as high court judges and the “remaining proposals are in various stages of processing with the government and the SC College,” Rijiju had said.
India has 25 higher courts with a sanctioned force of 1,098 judges. The workforce on August 1 is 643, a deficit of 455 judges.