Choosing the Chief Justice

Mohan Kumaramangalam is perhaps most infamously remembered for his strident advocacy of a method of appointment of the Chief Justice of India that would take into account a candidate’s social and constitutional philosophy as assessed by the government rather than seniority alone. Pejoratively viewed as seeking a “committed judiciary,” his justification was widely seen as an attempt to vindicate the supersession of Justices Shelat, Hegde and Grover in favour of Justice Ray as Chief Justice of India.

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