High Court<\/strong><\/a>, transfer of High Court Chief Justices \/ Judges and elevation to the Supreme Court, because on each occasion the material which is considered by the Collegium is different.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Resolution is passed to ensure transparency and yet maintain confidentiality in the Collegium system.<\/span><\/p>\n(Signed)<\/span><\/p>\n( Dipak Misra ), CJI.<\/span><\/p>\n( J.Chelameswar ), J.<\/span><\/p>\n( Ranjan Gogoi ), J.<\/span><\/p>\n( Madan B. Lokur ), J.<\/span><\/p>\n( Kurian Joseph ), J.<\/span><\/p>\nNew Delhi,<\/span><\/p>\nOctober 03, 2017<\/span><\/p>\nThe issue of the transfers became a trifle ugly with the Justice Patel issue. While the judge himself has kept his opinion to himself, there have been many within the judicial profession who have lambasted the judiciary for virtually sidelining the judge who had shown tremendous spine in ordering a CBI enquiry into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case during the Godhra riots of 2002. It has been alleged that the executive may have had finally gotten total control of the judiciary and is now calling the shots about judicial postings and transfers.<\/span><\/p>\nThe reaction to this transfer (of Justice Patel) from the Supreme Court so far has been a trite comment, saying:<\/span><\/p>\n“Decision taken to transfer Justice Jayant Patel was a conscious and unanimous decision taken after adequate deliberation keeping in view the input on record.”<\/span><\/p>\nRecently even Justice J Chelameswar, who is part of the Collegium \u2013 he is also the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court \u2013 had criticized the secret nature of the functioning of the Collegium. He had even refused to participate in the Collegium meetings until there was some record made of what transpired.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There has been much talk about the opacity of the Supreme Court Collegium and the recent transfer and resignation of Justice Jayant Patel of the Karnataka High Court \u2013 transferred to the Allahabad High Court as the third senior-most, killing his Supreme Court prospects \u2013 has added fuel to the controversy fire. The Supreme Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[369,320],"yst_prominent_words":[24311,16170,24312,24319,24316,24320,24318,24308,4030,18307,24317,22558,12281,24314,24313,24309,24307,4402,24310,24315],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Supreme-Court-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28983"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=28983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}