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After CEC, will there also be a change in how judges are appointed?

The govt may now come back with a modified version of the NJAC bill whereby the practice of judges appointing themselves is stopped

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
The Supreme Court has done the right thing by ordering that the Chief Election Commissioner will henceforth be chosen by a committee comprising the prime minister, the leader of the opposition and the chief justice. This is more-or-less of a piece with what, first, the Venkatachaliah Committee in 2002 and then the National Judicial Appointments Commission bill in 2016, had suggested for the appointment of judges. 

The first, which became a bill in 2003, could not be presented to parliament as it was dissolved. The second was passed unanimously by parliament, but the Supreme Court struck it down, saying it
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