Collegium

The collegium met two days after justice Chelameswar wrote a letter to the CJI asking him to convene a meeting so that it could reiterate its recommendation that justice Joseph be elevated to the Supreme Court . With the collegium clearing his name, it will be difficult for the government to say no a second time, although it can take as much time as it wants before it decides on this.

The collegium has done the right thing by deciding to reiterate justice Joseph’s name for elevation to the apex court, senior advocate KTS Tulsi said.

“The recommendation is now a binding on the government. The ball is now in the government’s court and it depends on them whether they want to intensify the standoff between the judiciary and legislature. It is for them to decide,” he added.

The Supreme Court and the government have been sparring on the issue of selection of judges to the apex court since 2014 when the government came up with a law codifying this process. The Supreme Court rejected this law in 2015 even as it admitted that the current process of selection could be improved and said that it would work with the government on a so-called Memorandum of Procedure on the selection of judges. There hasn’t been much progress on that front.

On May 2, the collegium had met to reconsider the case of justice Joseph’s elevation to the Supreme Court in the face of opposition by the government. But no decision was taken; the names of three more judges from the Calcutta high court, Andhra & Telangana high court and Rajasthan high court too were discussed at that meeting. It was decided at that meeting that the collegium would meet a week later and take a call on the four names.

Justice Joseph’s elevation to the top court has been a bone of contention between the government and the collegium, which found him to be a meritorious and eminently suitable for appointment to the Supreme Court and , recommended his name as early as January 10 to the government. But the government, after sitting on the recommendation for over three months, returned the name of justice Joseph, calling the proposed appointment as “not appropriate” and unfair and unjustified to other more suitable chief justices and judges of high courts. where a soldier has been sentenced to death, CINCAN will have to withhold confirmation and refer the proceedings to the chiefs of the army or the air force, as the case may be.

Earlier all such disciplinary cases, except the navy as CINCAN is a naval officer, were forwarded to the respective service headquarters for action.

India is focusing on fortifying its farthest military outpost, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, amid China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean region. Myanmar’s Coco Islands, where the Chinese navy has set up a surveillance post, are barely 40 km from the Andamans’ northernmost tip Landfall.

Airstrips at Campbell Bay and Shibpur have been extended from 3,000 feet to 12,000 feet to support all types of aircraft, including fighter jets, officials said.

The Andamans are more than 1,200 km away from mainland India.

A significant volume of China’s oil imports passes through the Malacca Strait, about 350 km from these islands. their favour and keep them away from their right to franchise if they don’t obey such persons,” the poll panel said in its order.

The death of a candidate had already resulted in polls in another constituency being deferred.

A total of 82,157 security officials will be deployed on polling day, including 585 companies of paramilitary forces.

So far, 1,229 violations of the model code of conduct have been recorded in the state, and ₹55 crore of cash and ₹57.5 crore of properties have been seized.