The Lok Sabha on Wednesday Aug 13,2014 passed the Constitutional Amendment Bill to
scrap the collegium system of appointing Supreme Court and High Court
judges and cleared the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill
2014 to regulate the procedure.
The National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2014, was passed by
voice vote along with one official amendment. The members also passed
the 99th Constitution Amendment Bill, which gives Constitutional status
to the proposed Commission, with 367 voting in favour and no one against
it. Members of the AIADMK abstained from voting.
Since the Bill was put to manual voting, the process took a while as
slips had to be distributed and then counted at every stage but members
went through the motions patiently and in a spirit of across-the-floor
camaraderie
The bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday after the Government
withdrew the United Progress Alliance-drafted legislation from the Rajya
Sabha earlier in the day.
The discussion on the bill in the Lok Sabha
on Tuesday saw most parties favour the setting up a Commission for
judicial appointments, and thereby restore the balance of powers between
the pillars of India’s democratic arrangement.
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