SC evades comment on PMO action

The Supreme Court has refused to comment on the decision of the PMO to return the file containing the collegium’s recommendations for the appointment of three apex court judges. A top Supreme Court official said that the file was not yet returned to the apex court by the Union Law Ministry. After the file was received the collegium comprising three senior most Judges — Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices B N Agarwal and Arijit Pasayat would take stock of the situation in its next meeting. Three senior-most High Court chief justices — A P Shah, A K Patnaik and V K Gupta — had been ignored and judges junior to them were promoted to the Supreme Court. The Manmohan Singh government pointed out that the Supreme Court collegium had overlooked seniority, regional and gender representations in its latest round of recommendations for the three high court judges to the apex court. Of the three judges cleared for promotion — Justice A K Ganguly figures fourth in the seniority list, Justice R M Lodha is seventh, while Justice H L Dattu is 27th in the all-India seniority list of high court judges.

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