SC Raised Questions On The Haste In The Appointment Of Arun Goyal, Said- Election Commissioner Was Appointed In 24 Hours After Taking VRS?

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the ‘haste’ in the appointment of Arun Goyal as the Election Commissioner. . At the same time, the central government opposed the observations of the court. Attorney General R Venkataramani said that the entire matter related to the appointment of Goyal should be looked into in detail. When the matter began to be heard, a five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice KM Joseph perused the original file relating to the appointment of Goyal as the Election Commissioner. He said what kind of assessment is this? We are not questioning the qualification of Arun Goyal, but his appointment process.

so fast that 19 The file did not remain on the departments even for hours

The bench questioned whether the appointment of Arun Goel as the Election Commissioner was ‘much hasty’ ‘ Was shown and their file 05 did not remain with the departments even for an hour. Countering this through Attorney General R Venkataramani, the Center strongly requested the bench not to comment without considering the entire issue related to the appointment process. During the hearing, when the Attorney General was giving arguments, advocate Prashant Bhushan tried to present arguments before the bench. On this, the top law officer told Prashant Bhushan that please keep quiet for a while.

WRITTEN ANSWER Five days’ time And reserved its decision on the petitions requesting to make a collegium-like system for the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and asked the concerned parties to give written answers in five days. Justice Ajay Rastogi, who was part of the bench, told Venkataramani that you have to listen to the court carefully and answer the questions. We are not questioning any candidate but the process. On this, the Attorney General said that it is his duty to answer the questions of the court.

taken VRS in a day And in a single day the Election Commission

bench Said that 1991 batch Indian Administrative Service officer Arun Goyal took voluntary retirement from service on a single day, in a single day. The Law Ministry cleared his file. A list of four names was presented to the Prime Minister and Arun Goyal’s name Approval was also received from the President within an hour. Justice Aniruddha Bose, Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice CT Ravikumar were also included in the bench.

Court to complete tenure Raised questions on The minister did not carefully select any of the four names included in the list so that they could complete their six-year term. Venkataramani said that there is a process and criteria for selection and it cannot be that the government looks at the past record of every officer and ensure that he completes a six-year term. six years or 65 Tenure can be up to the age of 10 years.

Goyal’s appointment ORIGINAL FILE TO BE RETURNED Citing that the Attorney General said that his profile is important and not voluntary retirement, which is being made an issue. The bench said that the law of 1991 states that the tenure of the Election Commissioner is six years and the government has to ensure that But the sitting person should complete the prescribed tenure. The apex court said it was unable to ascertain the reasons as to how the law minister selected four names who were not going to complete the prescribed six-year term. The hearing in the matter is going on and the bench said that the original file relating to Goyal’s appointment be returned.

running on collegium system Hearing According to, presented before the bench the original file of appointment of Arun Goyal as Election Commissioner, which was taken note of by the Supreme Court. The bench is hearing petitions requesting to create a collegium-like system for the appointment of Election Commissioner and Chief Election Commissioner. The appointment of Arun Goel as the Election Commissioner on Wednesday came under the scanner of the Supreme Court, which sought the original records in this regard from the Center and said it wanted to know whether any impropriety had been done. Has gone.

February will be the Chief Election Commissioner Arun Goyal

To Arun Goyal, an IAS officer of Punjab Cadre Was appointed Election Commissioner on November. When he was 94 years old Was about to retire on December. After assuming his new role, Arun Goyal will be the next Chief Election Commissioner after the current CEC Rajeev Kumar retires in February 7277. There was a vacancy in the Election Commission after the retirement of erstwhile CEC Sushil Chandra in May.