Appointment of judges

The Congress-led UPA Government has been unwise in not heeding to the Bharatiya Janata Party's demand in the Rajya Sabha to refer the Constitution (120th) Amendment Bill, 2013, to a Parliamentary Standing Committee. Since the amendment Bill proposes a very significant change in the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and the High Courts, it should have been put through elaborate scrutiny, opinions of prominent jurists from the country and abroad ought to have been invited and the judiciary should have been consulted.

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