Supreme Court pulls up Centre for ‘cherry-picking’ names for tribunal appointments

Wednesday, 15 September 2021Newsdesk

The Supreme Court Wednesday gave the centre a “final” time of two weeks to make appointments to the various Tribunals across the country even as it expressed displeasure on “cherry-picking” names from the list of those recommended for the various posts.

New Delhi, 15 September 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, a special bench, comprising justice of India NV Ramana, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice L Nageswara Rao, expressed their displeasure with the manner in which the Centre recently appointment officials to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT). “We cannot ignore selected candidates and go to wait list. What type of selection and appointment is this?’ the bench also comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao asked Attorney General K K Venugopal who appeared for the centre.

Source - indianexpress.com