Challenge against Collegium System: Kerala HC DB remits back the matter to Single Judge to decide afresh on maintainability [Read Order]

A Division Bench of High Court of Kerala, has remitted back a writ petition challenging collegium system of appointment of Judges to be considered afresh by the single bench. The single bench has been directed to consider the writ petition on the issue of maintainability.The registry of the court had earlier raised queries on the maintainability of the writ petition. Upon answering the queries, by the petitioner the matter was posted as an unnumbered writ petition before single bench. Allowing the writ appeal and setting aside the order of the Single Judge, the division bench comprising of Justices C.K.Abdhul Rehim and B.Sudheendra Kumar held that the single judge primarily ought to have considered the writ petition on the question of maintainability rather than dismissing it as unnumbered.