Supreme Court working with govt. to clear pending HC appointments: CJI

On Thursday, July 24, 2025, the Chief Justice of India said that the administrative side of the Supreme Court was dealing with the government to clean up college suggestions for judicial appointments to high courts waiting for months.

Chief Justice Gavai, “We continue on the administrative side… Some names are being cleaned,” he said.

The Chief Justice expressed the concern of some young lawyers who have recently reversed their names.

Senior lawyer Arvind was responding to an oral words made by Datar, defending Prashant Bhushan and Amite Pai for an early hearing of the government’s unexplained delay and unilateral distinction of the names proposed by the college. The Chief Justice listed the trial case two weeks later.

The Chief Justice said that one from Delhi and the other in Mumbai, the other, with the consent of the two lawyers they have practiced.

At the beginning of July, the judicial accountability and reforms campaign, a NGO, issued a public statement about the approved by the defender Swetashree Majumder proposed by Collegium for the Delhi Supreme Court’s counter a year ago. The government was sitting in his name without giving the reasons. We were tired, the lawyer was bent.

Similarly, lawyer Rajesh Dattar in Mumbai found that his name was separated by the government. Young people in the legal profession, no action on the appointment, while the Supreme Court of Bombay was appointed as the additional judges.

Chief Justice, Mr. Arvind Datar and Mr. Bhushan admitted that they were “some of the best lawyers”.

‘Govt. Don’t stop posts’

Arvind Datar said that the government continued to stop the appointments despite the timeline determined in the decisions made by the Supreme Court. “There are names proposed in 2019 and still continue with the government in 2021 and 2022,” he said.

In October 2023, three judges chaired by Sanjay Kishan Kaul (now retired), who heard these petitions, criticized the unquestionably in the government’s judgment on losing its future talents. The counter condemned the center’s Pick-Foose policy. The court said that the government’s behavior could ultimately affect public and plaintiffs.

In 2022, the Court attributed the painful failure of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) to delay the government of the government to delay the proposals of “passing some Rubicons” and seizing the judiciary.

In 2015, the Supreme Court overthrew Njac, who gave an equal promise to the government in judicial appointments to the Constitutional Courts. The decision revived the system of college judicial appointments.