The Center has approved the proposal for the appointment of 18 members in the NCLT. (file)
New Delhi:
five days later Supreme Court expressed displeasure By diluting the conditions of members and chairpersons of tribunals in the manner in which the Center invoked the Tribunal Reforms Act, Semtre on Saturday approved the appointment of judicial and technical members to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. Tribunal (ITAT).
The Supreme Court, on September 6, had expressed dissatisfaction and reprimanded the manner in which the Center had not appointed members of the tribunals.
A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana and headed by Justices L Nageswara Rao and DY said, “You (Central government) are testing the patience of the Court, none of our decisions do not Honour.” Chandrachud had slammed the Center for the Tribunal Reforms Act and non-appointment of members and chairpersons in the tribunal.
The Center on Saturday approved the appointment of judicial and technical members in NCLT and ITAT.
It has approved the proposal for the appointment of 18 members in the NCLT – eight judicial members and 10 technical members.
The eight judicial members are Justice Telprolu Rajani (Judge, Andhra Pradesh High Court), Justice Pradeep Narhari Deshmukh (Former Judge of Bombay High Court), Justice S Ramathilagam (Former Judge of Madras High Court), Dharminder Singh (Bench Officer, DRT-3). Huh. Delhi), Harnam Singh Thakur (Retd. Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court), P Mohan Raj (Retd. District Judge, Salem, Tamil Nadu), Rohit Kapoor (Advocate) and Deep Chandra Joshi (District Judge).
The Center has said that these appointments are for a term of five years or till these members attain the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. It also appointed 13 new judicial members to the ITAT – six judicial members and seven accountants.
Four judicial members have been removed from the unreserved category, one from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category and one from the Scheduled Castes (SC) category.
Five of the accountant members are from the unreserved category, one from the OBC category and one from the Supreme Court category.
These appointments are for a term of four years or till these members attain the age of 67 years, whichever is earlier.
The judicial members are Sanjay Sharma (Advocate), S Sitalakshmi, (Advocate), Shatin Goel (Additional District and Sessions Judge), Anubhav Sharma (Additional District and Sessions Judge), TR Senthil Kumar (Advocate) and Manohar Das (Law Officer). State Bank of India).
The Supreme Court was hearing a petition on September 6 by Congress leader and MP Jairam Ramesh and others challenging the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021.
The CJI had asked the Solicitor General, “There is no respect for the decisions of this Court. It is unfortunate. Last time you (Solicitor General) said that you have appointed some members in the Tribunal. How many people have you appointed? Is.” SG) Tushar Mehta.
The top court had then said that the recommendations were made keeping in mind all the parameters. It had also warned that it could initiate contempt of court proceedings against the Center if the appointments were not made within a week.
The Supreme Court had said that “the Center has no respect for the decisions of the Supreme Court”.
The top court had also warned of contempt action if the Center continued to “lax on” the appointment of chairpersons and members of the tribunal.
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