New Delhi, July 21
The government is learnt to have asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to elevate a judge of the Allahabad High Court as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. Returning the file of Justice Vikram Nath last month, the government did not cite any reason, sources said.
This is perhaps the first recommendation to be returned to the collegium by the present government. The NDA-I had returned several recommendations back to it.
On April 8, the collegium headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi had recommended the name of Justice Nath for elevation as Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
“Mr Justice Vikram Nath is the senior-most Judge from Allahabad High Court and is functioning in that high court since his elevation. Having regard to all relevant factors, the collegium finds Justice Vikram Nath suitable in all respects for being appointed as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
“The collegium resolves to recommend accordingly,” a resolution uploaded on the Supreme Court website read.
Responding to a written question in the Lok Sabha on July 17, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said seven of the nine recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium this year to appoint chief justices to nine high courts had been accepted while two names were under “various stages of processing”.
He said the SC collegium had recommended nine proposals for appointment of high court judges as chief justices in various high courts up to July 12. Prasad said out of the nine, seven judges had been appointed as chief justices in the high courts of Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Rajasthan and Telangana. — PTI
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