The Bar Association of India (BAI) expressed ‘alarm’ at the reported move by the government to bring in a Draft Bill for a Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) without consulting any legal body and urged the government not to rush through the legislation without a debate.<\/p>\n
Several eminent lawyers including BAI President Emeritus Fali S Nariman, BAI President Anil B Divan, and Vice Presidents K K Venugopal and Ashok Desai and former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan, in a signed memorandum to Law Minister Ashwini Kumar, said such an important measure should not be rushed through without a ‘robust’ debate and discussion which necessarily involved a reasonable time.<\/p>\n
Reports said the government proposed to set up a six-member Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), headed by the Chief Justice and having Law Minister as a representative of the government, to provide a say to the government in the appointment of judges.<\/p>\n
The proposed system, which is likely to be discussed by the Union Cabinet today, will scrap the mechanism of judges appointing judges.<\/p>\n
It is seen as an attempt by the government to interfere in the judiciary.<\/p>\n
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