The move to go public with its decisions, “indicating the reasons”, was taken at a meeting of the Collegium, comprising the five most senior judges of the Supreme Court, on October 3. This radical move comes close on the heels of the row over the transfer and subsequent resignation of Justice Jayant Patel of Karnataka High Court. The Third Judges Case was an opinion, not a ruling, by the Supreme Court in 1998 on a question referred to it by the then President, K R Narayanan. The government brought in the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act in 2014 which was struck down a year later by the Supreme Court as “unconstitutional”. Subsequently, the Supreme Court allowed the government to “finalise the existing Memorandum of Procedure by supplementing it in consultation with the Chief Justice of India”.

Source: Indian Express October 06, 2017 15:45 UTC