Sunlight is the best disinfectant”, the Supreme Court said in 1997 in Dinesh Trivedi versus Union of India. Having advocated transparency for others, the Supreme Court can’t really shun this yardstick in its own matters. Under the collegium system created by a judicial order in 1993, the chief justice along with other senior judges of the Supreme Court appoint judges to the top court as well as high courts. It is also responsible for transferring high court judges. Ideally, the Supreme Court should have given a chance to the NJAC — which was a sort of expanded the collegium with the participation of two eminent persons and the law minister.

Source: Hindustan Times September 05, 2016 08:03 UTC