The Predicament of the Collegium
The complete composition of the collegium continues to run into rough weather
The collegium system of appointment of judges is once again in the news. The union government, through Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju and the Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar, has been making its displeasure about the system public in the last few weeks. Moreover, the somewhat unintelligible, if not preposterous, suggestion has also come from the union law minister that the government should have a representative in a screening committee that sends the names to the judges in the first place.
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Alok Prasanna Kumar is Co-Founder and Lead, Vidhi Karnataka. His areas of research include judicial reforms, Constitutional law, urban development, and law and technology. He graduated with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from the NALSAR University in 2008 and obtained the BCL from the University of Oxford in 2009. He writes a monthly column for the Economic and Political Weekly and has published in the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law and National Law School of India Review apart from media outlets such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Scroll, Quint and Caravan. He has practiced in the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court from the chambers of Mr Mohan Parasaran, and currently also co-hosts the Ganatantra podcast on IVM Podcasts.