New Delhi, Nov 4: India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday invited suggestions for making the working of the collegium for appointment of judges to higher judiciary more transparent and criteria based.
But it noted the suggested changes could not travel beyond the parameters already spelt out in its 1998 judgment.
A constitution bench comprising Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice J. Chelameswar, Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel asked senior counsel Arvind Dattar and Additional Solicitor General Pinki Anand to collate the suggestions including those on which there is commonality of views.
The suggestions have also been invited on the plea for setting up a permanent secretariat of the apex court collegium including its composition and how and which kind of complaints trying to red flag an appointment should be entertained.
However, it was made clear that anonymous complaints would go in to the dustbin.
After collating the various suggestions, Dattar and Anand would submit their report to the apex court which would hear the matter on November 5 (Thursday).
