SC withdraws recommendation on HC judge’s appointment
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This follows controversial selections in 2 sexual assault circumstances by Justice Ganediwala of Bombay HC
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad A. Bobde wrote to the federal government withdrawing the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendation to nominate Justice P.V. Ganediwala, an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court, as Permanent Judge, following her controversial selections in two sexual assault circumstances.
The file on Justice Ganediwala will now be positioned earlier than the Collegium for a choice on her tenure as Additional Judge.
Justice Ganediwala’s judgments had raised objections throughout the judiciary itself, a supply stated. The Collegium had really helpful her appointment as Permanent Judge solely on January 20.
On January 27, a Bench led by Chief Justice Bobde stayed one of many two judgments, which stated that groping a minor over her garments doesn’t quantity to sexual assault underneath the POCSO Act.
The keep got here on an pressing oral mentioning made by Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, who stated the judgment would set a harmful precedent and cripple the very intention of the POCSO legislation to guard youngsters from sexual offenders.
The second judgment by Justice Ganediwala concluded that holding palms with a five-year-old woman and unzipping the trousers didn’t quantity to “sexual assault” underneath the POCSO Act.
