Top Judge Writes To Chief Justice About Supreme Court Being Under Threat
New Delhi: A top judge from the Apex Court has written to Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that the “very life and existence” of the Supreme Court is under threat.
“History will not pardon us” if the court doesn’t respond to the government’s unprecedented act of sitting on the collegium’s recommendation to elevate a judge and a senior advocate, Justice Kurian Joseph has written in the letter that has also been sent to 22 other judges.
The date on the letter was 9 April.
The Supreme Court collegium, which is a group of top judges, on January 10, decided to put a recommendation for the names of senior advocate Indu Malhotra and Justice KM Joseph, Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court for the Supreme Court.
The government is yet to take action over the recommendation even after three months have passed.
But Justice Kurian Joseph has suggested to the Supreme Cout must take it up and “immediately constitute a seven-judge bench to pass orders on the pending appointment”.
He said, “it is the first time in the history of this court where nothing is known as to what has happened to a recommendation after three months.”
Calling upon the Chief Justice to step in, Justice Joseph wrote: “If there is no normal delivery on completion of the gestation period, what needs to be urgently done is a Caesarean section. Unless such surgical intervention is done at an appropriate time, the child in the womb dies.”
Last month, Justice Jasti Chelameswar had also conveyed to the Chief Justice by expressing grave concern over the propriety of the law ministry directly to Karnataka High Court, despite the fact, that the Collegium reiterating a name for elevation to the High Court.
Responding to the letter, a senior judge told News Reporters: “It is a very sad situation. We are sick of it. Nobody is worried about what is going on in the Supreme Court.”
From sometime, there were reports of government at the centre meddling with the authority of justice in India.
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