Collegium System: The Law Minister wrote a letter to the CJI to include a representative to fix acco

Collegium System: The Law Minister wrote a letter to the CJI to include a representative to fix accountability in the 25-year-old Collegium System!

 In November last year, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju wrote a letter to the CJI to ensure transparency in the collegium system and accountability to the public, saying that government representatives should be included in our collegium system.

 what is collegium

 The Collegium is a system of Supreme Court and High Court judges that process transfers and appointments. Its members are the judges of HC and SC, they select the names for the new judges and send them to the President or the Prime Minister, after their consent, new judges are appointed in the Supreme Court and High Court.

 In the collegium system, 5 judges are appointed and the CJI is the head of it. For the time being, it has 6 judges in the collegium, it selects the names of judges and recommends them to the Center for appointment.

What statement can the Supreme Court make?

 In the past, Times of India had said in one of its reports that it is difficult for the Supreme Court to accept this recommendation of the government because the NJAC was passed in the assembly in 2014, and in 2015 a bench of 5 judges of the Supreme Court It was declared unconstitutional. For the time being, the Supreme Court has 1 CJI and a bench of 5 judges, earlier there was no successor to the CJI, but now Sanjeev Khanna has been appointed as the successor to the CBI.

 The government wants changes in the selection of judges.

 The bill stalled in 2015, in which there was an arrangement to keep the Law Minister and two eminent people in the NGAC, which was selected for the arrangement of the Prime Minister, Leader and CJI panel. For the time being, this letter of Law Minister Rijiju is believed to be about these arrangements. Is.

 Delay from the Center in the selection of judges.

 At least 104 recommendations sent by the Collegium are pending with the Central Government and this matter is pending with the Central Government for a long time. Where the matter reached the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court said, asked the Central Government to settle the matter as soon as possible.

 Regarding the collegium system, the Supreme Court said that this type of interference is not right in the judiciary, it is not just, it will not be appropriate. And the delay in the appointment of judges here prevents the selection of good judges and forces their names to be withdrawn.

 Central and constitution institutions say

 Law Minister Kiran Rijij says that anywhere in the world judges do not appoint other judges. It is the job of the government to appoint judges and stay. In 1998, the collegium started appointing judges, since then their personal work is affected. Judges spend more time appointing other judges, in this justice is affected.

 Note: Not only the collegium, but Dr. Ambedkar, the architect of the constitution, said that the judiciary and the government are two different institutions, the government should not interfere in the judiciary.