Justice Katju Targets the next Probable Chief Justice of India by Seniority and ask the Government when Justice Lodha retires, Government should not go by seniority but choose the fittest person as CJI

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24 Aug 2014 2:47 PM IST

  • Justice Katju Targets the next Probable Chief Justice of India by Seniority  and ask the Government when Justice Lodha retires, Government should not go by seniority but choose the fittest person as CJI

    Justice Markandey Katju demanded that the Chief Justice of India shall not be appointed by Seniority but on merits only. In his latest blog post he made the following observation;The present Chief Justice of India, Justice Lodha, is retiring on 27th September , 2014, and the question now is who should be appointed his successor ?For quite some time the convention has been to appoint the...

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