A Parliamentary Panel on Monday called for Supreme Court and High Court Collegiums to recommend an adequate number of women and candidates from SC/ST/OBC backgrounds for judicial appointments, adding that “this provision should be clearly mentioned in the Memoranda of Procedure (MoP), which is currently under finalisation”.
The report on Judicial processes and reform was tabled on Monday by the House panel on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice, headed by BJP MP Sushil Modi. In the report, the committee has made public government’s data on the social status of High Court judges appointed since 2018, remarking that this pointed to a “diversity deficit” in the higher judiciary.
This comes amid recently escalating tensions between the government and the Supreme Court over the Collegium system of appointing judges.
