TIA NEWS /
Supreme Court has rejected a PIL seeking setting up of a public body, independent of the executive and judiciary, to ensure fair appointment of judges in High Courts and the apex court.
A bench comprising of justices Arun K Mishra and U U Lalit while hearing the PIL yesterday, said, judges do not need certificates from anybody. The bench also said the setting up of such a body would amount to amending the Constitution which cannot be done by the apex court.
The observation came when it was alleged that there has been nepotism in the appointment of judges in High Courts and the apex court.
The bench disagreed with the plea of National Lawyers’ Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms that a body independent of executive and judiciary to select Judges to the higher judiciary was needed, as those talented amongst a vast majority of lawyers were never considered by the collegium for selection as Judges.
The lawyers’ body has contended that an independent judge selection body was needed to end the alleged control of the elite section over judiciary.