SC trashes plea against elevation of Justice Khehar as Chief Justice
The Supreme Court On Tuesday Once Again Dismissed A Plea Challenging The Appointment Of Justice JS Khehar As The Next Chief Justice Of India, Saying “it Is In The Public Interest That The Curtain Should Be Brought Down'.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday once again dismissed a plea challenging the appointment of Justice JS Khehar as the next Chief Justice of India, saying “it is in the public interest that the curtain should be brought down”.The apex court had dismissed two similar pleas filed in the past fortnight challenging the appointment of Justice Khehar as the next CJI.Justice Khehar will assume the office of the CJI on Wednesday as the tenure of incumbent Justice TS Thakur ends today. On December 19, President Pranab Mukherjee had cleared the name of Justice Khehar.“Two petitions have been filed on the same grounds and had been dismissed. It is the time when we put the issue at rest. It is in the public interest that the curtain should be brought down,” a bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud said.The bench dismissed the present plea filed by one Tejsing Ashok Rao Gaikwad on the ground that similar pleas have been earlier heard by the apex court and dismissed.“We are not inclined to entertain the plea and hence it is dismissed,” the bench said.Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara, appearing for the petitioner, said that Justice Khehar should be disqualified from being appointed as the next CJI as he “while heading a five-judge Constitution bench had struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) which had benefited him as the judgement had revived the collegium system for appointment of judges in the higher judiciary.”Nedumpara had in the morning mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur for urgent hearing which directed the matter to be listed on Tuesday.Justice Chandrachud said that the averments and arguments were heard in detail in the petitions filed earlier and there was no point in going again into the same thing.On December 30, the apex court had dismissed the plea filed by a group of lawyers challenging the elevation of Justice Khehar as next CJI, saying there was “no question” of him being considered ineligible for the post.The top court had on December 23 termed as “virtually infructuous” a petition filed by the lawyers’ body opposing elevation of Justice Khehar observing that the President has already issued a notification in this regard.
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