TOP COURT DROPS AUTHORSHIP IN JUDICIAL OFFICERS QUOTA VERDICT

Breaking from convention, a Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday chose not to ascribe authorship to its ruling relating to quota for entry-level judicial officers in appointments to the district judge cadre—the first time the top court has chosen to do so since the 2019 Ayodhya verdict.

- Utkarsh Anand

Although Chief Justice of India BR Gavai read out operative portion of the verdict, he made it clear that no individual judge has been credited as the author. The idea, he said, was to emphasise that the five-judge bench had spoken as one, without attributing the reasoning to any single member. The ben