Citizens have the right to know how judges are appointed: CIC

The Supreme Court’s denial of an RTI request for details of correspondence between the law minister and the Chief Justice of India about the procedure for appointment of judges has led the Central Information Commission (CIC) to ask whether citizens have no right to know how their judges get their jobs. "It cannot be anybody’s case that the change in the procedure of judges should happen completely outside the notice or the knowledge of the citizens of India and that (they) should not be given an opportunity to articulate their views.

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