Appointment of Judges
Querist :
Anonymous
(Querist) 19 December 2009
This query is : Resolved
Since when and how the practice of selection of Judges through Collegium begun?
Querist :
Anonymous
(Querist) 20 December 2009
But to my knowledge the collegium method was created as a result of two judgments of the Supreme Court, first in 1993 (Supreme Court Advocate-on-Record Association case) and by a follow-up President’s Reference to the Court in 1998. The Supreme Court rewrote the provisions of the Constitution for appointment of judges and appropriated the power to appoint judges by the judges. By the first case the power was vested in the Chief Justice of India in whom it was held the primacy lay in appointments assisted by two judges of the Supreme Court. In the second case the court took away the primacy of the Chief Justice of India and vested the power in a collegium of the Chief Justice of India and four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court.
