Collegium In Justice B V Nagratna Despite disagreement of Patna in Supreme Court High Court Chief Justice of Justice Vipul Pancholi Former judge on promotion of Justice Abhay S Oka has said important things. He said that in this matter Justice Nagratna The reasons for the disagreement of should be publicized because the public has the right to find out this reason.
Justice AS Oka also said that Justice Pancholi But Justice Nagratna Description of disagreement of Record Should have been recorded in. He says that any disagreement needs to be considered in the collegium. Justice Oka edited by former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, Surlidhar, (in) Complete Justice? The Supreme Court attended the release of at 75 ‘. He said this in response to the question of Senior Advocate Indira Jaisingh.
Advocate Jai Singh asked the panel of Justice Muralidhar and Justice Oka and political scientist Gopal Guru about the functioning of the collegium, which works in ‘privacy’ and at a time she wanted to know about ‘the criteria for selection of future Chief Justice of India’ when disagreements have been raised by the Supreme Court’s sole women judges.
Justice Oka said, ‘This question is very worrying, but I have been saying that we have to define transparency. You are right to say that when a judge expresses disagreement, we should know what that disagreement is- there is nothing wrong in this. You have the right to criticize why that disagreement is not public.
Justice Oka clarified that if the collegium’s deliberations and details are made public, it may affect the privacy of the lawyers who have agreed to consider by the collegium.
He said, ‘If the collegium considers 10 or 15 lawyers, out of which 10 cases are considered and five are not recommended, do we not worry about the privacy of those who have voluntarily agreed? They have to go back and practice.
The former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court said that once these cases become public, the salary of these persons also becomes public for the last three years. He said, ‘Therefore we have to balance it with privacy.’
A five -member collegium headed by Chief Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai on August 25 recommended the promotion of the names of Bombay High Court Chief Justice Alok Aradh and Justice Vipul Pancholi. If appointments are made, then after the retirement of Justice Joymalya Bagchi, Pancholi will join the race to become the Chief Justice in October 2031.
Sources said that Justice Nagratna opposed the recommendations of Pancholi’s relatively low seniority, his transfer from Gujarat to Patna High Court in July 2023 and the recommendations citing concerns of regional imbalance in the Representation of the Supreme Court.