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Former SC judge slams Law Minister Rijiju for ‘diatribe’ against Collegium: ‘Sitting on names deadly against democracy’

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Former Supreme Court judge Rohinton Fali Nariman on Saturday criticised the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju for what he described as a “diatribe” against the Collegium system.

He also called out the Centre for “sitting on names of judges” recommended the Collegium, which he said was “deadly for the democracy of the country”.

“This sitting on names is a very deadly thing against democracy of this country. Because what you are merely doing is you are waiting for a particular collegium and hoping that the next collegium changes its mind. Appointment must be done within a reasonable time period.

“It is how a constitution works. If you don’t have fearless and independent judges say goodbye…There is nothing left…As a matter of fact, according to me if finally this last bastion falls or was to fall we would enter the abyss of a new dark age, in which R K Laxman’s Common Man will ask himself only one question: if the salt has lost its savour, wherewith will shall it be salted?…” Nariman said while speaking at the Mumbai University while delivering the seventh Chief Justice M C Chagla Memorial Lecture.

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