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August 2014

Times to reform our judicial appoinment

By Tarunkumar G. Singhal, Raman Jokhakar Chartered Accountants
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The sordid manner in which senior lawyer Gopal Subramanium’s appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court (SC) has been thwarted points to the urgency of reforming judicial appointments. Subramanium’s name was delinked from the other three forwarded by the judges’ collegium to the government for elevation to the bench, based, reportedly, on certain reports of the CBI and the Intelligence Bureau. These agencies have regularly made use of Mr. Subramanium’s legal services. So, this sudden discovery of character flaws can only be attributed to the preferences of the new political dispensation.
(Source: The Economic Times, dated 27-06-2014)

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