IT REFERS to shocking media-reports that elevation of retired Chief Justice of Delhi Justice AP Shah could be stalled by just one member of Supreme Court collegiums. What happens if the concerned senior collegium-member stalling elevation of AP Shah to Supreme Court happens to be Chief Justice of India by virtue of seniority-system at Supreme Court? Will it be fair that a person being unjust even to a widely-acknowledged distinguished Chief Justice of a state may be given charge as head of Indian judicial system that too at a time when even the advice of present Chief Justice of India and Prime Minister are said to have been vetoed by the particular collegium-member?
It is indeed unfortunate that judicial-administration-system in the country has touched so low when personal equations and not merit matter in appointment of judges at the Apex Court. Name of collegiums-member having vetoed elevation of Justice AP Shah should be made public. At a time when Justice AP shah has declined to accept any post-retirement posting, propriety demands that the concerned collegium-member should also resign to settle personal scores without himself being at high post in Indian judiciary.
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