NEW DELHI: Parliament is “duty-bound” to address the Supreme Court’s “overreach” in striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act in 2015 which compromised “parliamentary sovereignty and disregarded the people’s mandate”, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Wednesday.
There is no parallel to such a development in democratic history where the “duly legitimised constitutional prescription” of the NJAC through the 99th Constitutional Amendment Bill, passed unanimously by both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, was “judicially undone”, Dhankhar said.
