<p>The Advocates-on-Record Association of the Supreme Court on Monday filed a petition challenging the constitutional status granted to the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC).<br /><br /></p>.<p>It sought a declaration from the apex court against the NJAC as “invalid, void and unconstitutional”. The NJAC which recently got Presidential assent after ratification by 16 states replaced the two-decade-old collegium system of appointment of judges to the high courts and Supreme Court. <br /><br />According to the petition, the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill has “altered the basic structure of the Constitution” and infringed upon judicial independence.<br /><br /> It said the Constitutional amendment took away the primacy of the collective opinion of the CJI and the two senior-most judges of the SC.<br /></p>
<p>The Advocates-on-Record Association of the Supreme Court on Monday filed a petition challenging the constitutional status granted to the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC).<br /><br /></p>.<p>It sought a declaration from the apex court against the NJAC as “invalid, void and unconstitutional”. The NJAC which recently got Presidential assent after ratification by 16 states replaced the two-decade-old collegium system of appointment of judges to the high courts and Supreme Court. <br /><br />According to the petition, the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill has “altered the basic structure of the Constitution” and infringed upon judicial independence.<br /><br /> It said the Constitutional amendment took away the primacy of the collective opinion of the CJI and the two senior-most judges of the SC.<br /></p>
