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Discussed NJAC, not against judiciary: VP Jagdeep Dhankhar
Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar emphasised the need for cooperation among the executive, legislature, and judiciary to ensure judicial accountability.
Updated on Mar 27, 2025 03:42 AM IST
Smriti Kak Ramachandran, New Delhi
V-P says no provision for review of a constitutional amendment
The hour-long meeting came in the wake of a huge amount of cash being recovered from the residence of Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma.
Updated on Mar 26, 2025 04:49 AM IST
Smriti Kak Ramachandran, New Delhi
No provision for review of constitution amendment, says Dhankhar
Jagdeep Dhankhar called an all-party meeting at 4.30pm to discuss judicial accountability against the backdrop of the cash discovery at Delhi high court judge Yashwant Varma’s official residence
Updated on Mar 25, 2025 12:59 PM IST
Smriti Kak Ramachadran
NJAC would have addressed issue of judicial accountability: Jagdeep Dhankhar
Jagdeep Dhankhar said the historic legislation was endorsed with unprecedented consensual support unknown to the parliamentary history
Published on Mar 21, 2025 12:45 PM IST
Lawmakers want National Judicial Appointments Commission Act to be brought back
The law amended the constitution and replaced the system of top judges of the Supreme Court making appointments to the higher judiciary. The top court struck it down in October 2015 as “unconstitutional.”
Updated on Aug 01, 2018 11:26 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Jatin Gandhi
Judges are holders of public office, they ought to be subject to public scrutiny: Justice Chelameswar
Justice Chelameswar was also one of four judges who, earlier this year, took on Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra for what they saw as inadequacies in the way he was administering the court and allocating cases.
Updated on Jun 22, 2018 06:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Ashok Bagriya and Bhadra Sinha
Justice Chelameswar retires, says no regrets about press conference on CJI
In an interview after retiring, Supreme Court judge Justice Chelameswar seemed to suggest that nothing had changed in the judicial system after he, and three other judges, aired their grievances over the Chief Justice of India in a press conference.
Updated on Jun 22, 2018 07:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Ashok Bagriya and Bhadra Sinha
Justice Chelameswar retires on Friday, lawyers hail his ‘courage, uprightness’
Justice Chelameswar’s seven-year-old stint in the Supreme Court ends on June 22. However, since the court breaks for a 41-day-long summer break from next week, Friday will be his last day in court.
Updated on May 17, 2018 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, | HT Correspondent
Collegium system preventing Dalits, OBCs from entering higher judiciary: HRD MoS Kushwaha
Union minister Upendra Kushwaha said that under the existing collegium system, neither the SCs/STs, the OBCs nor the poor among the upper castes are getting a chance to enter the higher judiciary on the basis of merit.
Updated on May 14, 2018 09:10 AM IST
Press Trust of India, Patna | Press Trust of India
SC’s judgement in NJAC case was wrong, says former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi
A five-judge constitution bench in a 4-1 majority verdict had held that both the Constitution (Ninety-ninth Amendment) Act, 2014, and the NJAC Act, 2014, were unconstitutional.
Updated on May 01, 2018 11:28 PM IST
Press Trust of India, New Delhi | Press Trust of India
The executive is diluting the collegium’s primacy
Justice KM Joseph is one of the outstanding judges deserving elevation to the Supreme Court
Updated on May 01, 2018 10:26 PM IST
Mohan Parasaran