The Supreme Court’s disquiet over mounting vacancies in high courts and tribunals and GoI’s delay in accepting SC’s recommendations for appointments reveal a dangerous divide. Many domain-specific tribunals were set up in the initial decades.
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NEW DELHI: After more than five years as minister for law and justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad leaves a legacy for successor Kiren Rijiju that began with enactment of the controversial National Judicial Appointments Commission and covered a spectrum including Ayodhya and Rafale cases.
Prasad’s tenure, from July, 2016 to July, 2021 in addition to holding the portfolio from May 2014 till November 2014, was second only to legendary senior advocate Ashok Sen, who was law minister from May 1957 till January 1966. Prasad would now surely resume his lucrative practice in the court after ministership.
Prasad’s innings as law minister under PM Narendra Modi in 2014 began with the signature reform legislation in NJAC, which intended to replace the collegium system of judges selecting candidates for appointment as judges, a system which had been frowned upon by both judiciary and lawyers as well as public as opaque though largely considered as a process independent of the executive.
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