New Delhi: Only 3.6% of the Supreme Court candidates for the position of judges of various Supreme Courts since November 2022 came from the planned caste and even fewer from the planned tribes, according to the publication of Apex Court.
The data published by the court on Monday evening showed that his college suggested that 221 names were judges of the High Court. Of these, 8 were planned castes and only 7 to planned tribes. Some of these 221 names must certainly be named by the central government.
Other reverse castes or municipalities were better off for about 14.5% or 32 nominated, while women came to 15.3% or 34 nominated.
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A total of 124 persons, named by the Collegium of the Supreme Court, belonged to the general category, but they were not women or minorities that accounted for about 56% of the nominees.
The Supreme Court did not give a reason to issue a press release, but said it was for “public knowledge and consciousness”.
SC provided data in two parts – from November 9, 2022 to 10 November 2024 and 11 November 2024 to date – marking the functions of the last two main judges.
The outgoing chief judge of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna composed an oath for his current office 11 November, where he also took the leadership of the Supreme Court Collegium. 14. May is ready to leave the office.
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Former Chief Judge Dhananjaya Chandrachud led the Supreme Court from November 9, 2022 to 10 November 2024.
Both of these main judges are related to former judicial members. Chandrachud is the son of justice Yeshwant Chandrachud, who was the main judge from February 1978 to 1985.
Khanna is a son and nephew of renowned judges. His father Dev Raj Khanna was the judge of the High Court in Delhi, and his uncle Hans Raj Khanna was a remarkable judge of the Supreme Court.
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The data of SC, which was published a week before retirement Khann, showed that about 6% of judges nominated for these roles are related to other judges.
Some judges nominated by the Supreme Court of Collegium must be formally appointed by the central government.
“The Supreme Indian Court submitted a complete process of appointment to the Supreme Courts and the Supreme Court, including the task assigned to the High Court, the role and entry from the state government, the Indian government and the assessment of the Supreme Court, on its website for knowledge and public awareness,” said May 5.
The College of the Top Court nominated candidates belonging to minorities or marginalized communities for higher judiciary. For example, in July 2024, the College of Justice was elevated by N. Kotiswar Singh, one of the Supreme Courts and stated that its promotion to the Supreme Court would provide representation in the northeastern region of India.
In addition, the main judge-Návrh Br Gavai, who belongs to the planned caste, was promoted to the Supreme Court in 2019.
The publication of the Supreme Court comes against the background of the Union’s cabinet, which in the upcoming census approved a list of caste. The Cabinet of the Union and the Cabinet Committee for Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 30, decided that the list of caste should be included in the people’s main census instead of being conducted as a separate survey.
The data of SC also showed that the bar came from a slightly more than half of the recommendations (52.9%) for the positions of the Supreme Court judges, suggesting that defense lawyers are in most. Alternatively, the College can also recommend the names of judges from the District Courts for the position of the Supreme Court judges.
There is no reservation based on identity in the Supreme Court, said Hemant Gupta, former judge of the Supreme Court and current chairman of the India of the International Arbitration Center. “The Supreme Court Collegium makes nominations for the position of the Judge of the High Court based on merit, gender or caste identity should not play any role in the same thing,” Mint said.
Former Judge of the Supreme Court and Member of College Sanjay Kishan Kaul said: “The data suggest that the appointment has increased in the last few months.” He added, however, that the data do not show how many recommendations from the Supreme Courts and state governments are waiting with the central government.
The recommendations must be sent to the Central Government, which then sends a list of recommendations to the college. Then Collegium sends its recommendations back to the Central Government for appointment.
Kaul also pointed out that some meetings, as seen in published data, waited for at least a year. These delays may cause nominated to feel that they are “detained”, he said, adding that this may be discouraged by future lawyers from providing consent, which will be considered to be promoted a higher judiciary.
Since at least half of all HC judges are drawn from the bar, the data show that “those who have a larger privilege and connection are likely to survive in the profession longer and even be considered promoted to HC,” said Alok Prasanna.
The district judiciary is diverse due to reservation in every state, Prasanna said, but the district judges are not promoted enough often or long enough to think their diversity in the Supreme Court.
As a result, the representation at the Supreme Courts becomes a problem of pipeline, Prasanna said. “If you do not have a bar that deserves or does not increase enough judges from the district judiciary, HC will continue to dominate the privileged castes and communities so far,” he said.
The publication of a college also comes in the middle of a capacity chrub in high courts, where about a third of the contributions are unoccupied. Data from the Ministry of Justice showed that there were 1 122 positions in the Supreme Courts and the Supreme Court. Of these, 354 – about 31.5% – free as 30 April 2025.
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