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In a detailed interview about the suggestions made by Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to the Chief Justice of India about how judges for both the High Courts and Supreme Court should be chosen, one of India’s most highly regarded former Supreme Court judges and a former member of both the Supreme Court Collegium and High Court Collegiums has said that the Law Minister’s suggestions are “unacceptable” and they would, if implemented, “damage and undermine the independence of the judiciary”. Justice Madan Lokur has also said that the justification given by the Law Minister for his suggestions – i.e. that the Supreme Court judgement of 2015 “directed to restructure the Memorandum of Procedure of the Collegium system” – is “flawed”. Finally, Justice Madan Lokur has also strongly criticized the Supreme Court for failing to do enough to defend and enforce the Collegium’s decisions. He called this repeated failure “unacceptable”.
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