New Delhi: Forty-four judges will be cleared for appointment to the higher judiciary in three days, the government told the Supreme Court on Friday, after it was asked to “follow the law of the land” and not delay the process. Hearing a petition on the delay in the appointment of judges, the Supreme Court asked the government to clear the pending names as early as possible.
“All efforts are being made to conform to the timelines(as laid down by the Supreme Court)”, Attorney General for India R Venkataramani told a bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka.
The AG informed the bench that 104 recommendations from High Court collegiums are pending with the Central Government and out of them 44 will be processed soon and forwarded to the Supreme Court collegium by tomorrow and the rest of it also will be processed soon.
“I am personally looking into it, not the names but the process”, the AG assured the bench.
The bench enquired about the status of 10 recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium which are pending with the Centre. Two of those recommendations are quite old, pending since October 2021 and the others were made in November 2022, the bench pointed out.
The AG assured that all these collegium recommendations for the Rajasthan High Court will be cleared soon.
