CJI recuses from hearing challenge to new CEC/EC appointment law
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday recused from hearing petitions alleging that a new law dealing with the appointment of Election Commissioners gives the Central government a dominant role. Section 7 mandates that the President of India would appoint the Chief Election Commissioner and the ECs on the recommendation of a Selection Committee of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition in the House of the People, and a Union Cabinet Minister to be nominated by the Prime Minister. “The Prime Minister and his nominee would always be the deciding factor… They are compromising free and fair elections with the exclusion of the Chief Justice of India from the committee… Justice should not only be done but seen to be done,” Ms. Thakur said in her petition. On Tuesday, senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for Ms. Thakur, ventured to ask Chief Justice Khanna why he was recusing from the case.
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