Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 15
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a petition filed by the Gujarat High Court Advocates’ Association questioning inordinate delay in appointment of Justice Akil A Kureshi as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court despite recommendation of the collegium.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi directed that a copy of the petition be served on Solicitor General Thushar Mehta, who will act as amicus curiae, and posted the matter for hearing on July 22.
The advocates association had on July 3 moved the Supreme Court accusing the Centre of deliberately sitting over the collegium’s recommendation. The Centre cleared the appointment of Chief Justices of other high courts, the recommendation of which was made by the three-member apex court collegium (on May 10) before the summer vacation but didn’t clear the file for appointment of Justice Kureshi.
On June 7, it had issued a notification appointing Justice Ravi Shanker Jha as Acting Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court, the petitioner pointed out. The collegium’s resolution had stated that “Justice AA Kureshi is the senior-most Judge from Gujarat High Court and at present is functioning, on transfer, in Bombay High Court.
The association contended the inaction on the part of the Centre is an attack on the independence of the judiciary and diminishes the primacy of the judiciary in the matters of appointment and transfer of judges to the High Courts and the Supreme Court.
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