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Time to revisit: Dhankhar questions role of CJI in executive appointments

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February 15, 2025

VICE President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday questioned the involvement of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) with any executive appointment.

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"How can in a country like ours or in any democracy, by statutory prescription, Chief Justice of India participates in the selection of the CBI director? Can there be any legal rationale for it? I can appreciate that the statutory prescription took shape because the executive of the day yielded to a judicial verdict. But time has come to revisit it," Dhankhar said in his address at the National Judicial Aca

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