'Collegium not the best system to pick judges... transparent dialogue needed'

The collegium system of appointing judges to constitutional courts is no longer the best mechanism and the executive and the judiciary ought to come together to formalise a method enabling transparent exchange of views instead of "secretive" or "back-door" consultations, outgoing Supreme Court judge justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul has emphasised.

- Utkarsh Anand , Abraham Thomas

Associated with the issue of judicial appointments on the administrative as well as judicial side, justice Kaul told HT in an interview that the unsatisfactory working of the collegium system could be attributed to the judges involved in making the recommendations amid the government's relentless insistence on having a say in the process.