{"id":1861,"date":"2015-01-31T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T09:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/articles_new\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2015-01-31T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T09:55:42","slug":"justice-katju-shows-flaws-in-judges-appointment-system-harish-salve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/articles_new\/justice-katju-shows-flaws-in-judges-appointment-system-harish-salve\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Katju Shows Flaws In Judges Appointment System: Harish Salve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Abhishek-Jain\"<\/div>\n

Justice Katju Shows Flaws In Judges Appointment System: Harish Salve<\/p>\n

Vellalapatti Swaminathan Iyer
\nEminent Jurist Harish Salve is a staunch critic of the Collegium system of appointment of Judges. Justice Katju\u2019s recent controversial comments on Katrina \u201cSheila Ki Jawani<\/em>\u201d Kaif and Shazia \u201cMore beautiful than Kiran Bedi<\/em>\u201d Ilmi have raised Harish Salve\u2019s hackles and he cites it as an example of the ills of the present system\n<\/div>\n

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On an earlier occasion, when Justice Markandey Katju made sensational revelations about the appointment of an alleged corrupt judge by Chief Justice Lahoti at the alleged behest of the PMO, Harish Salve wrote an article in India Today<\/a> in which he caustically observed:\n<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice Markandey Katju was always “different”. Sobriety and discretion were as alien to him as vegetarianism to a leopard. Blogger Katju continues in the same vein. This time, he has created seismic reverberations in our hallowed community of black robes.<\/em>\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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Justice Katju has lived up to his reputation. On 13th January 2015, he wrote a piece on his blog<\/a> suggesting that Katrina Kaif, the popular Bollywood actress, should be made the next President of India \u201cbut on the condition that she sings ‘Sheela ki Jawaani’ on her Inaugural!<\/em>\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The piece appears to have been written as a satirical joke that as the politicians do nothing in any case, it is better to elect a beautiful face to a political post.\n<\/p>\n

However, given that the comment came from a person who held such a distinguished position, Justice Katju was severely attacked by all luminaries in the media for making \u201cextremely derogatory<\/em>\u201d and \u201csexist<\/em>\u201d remarks. Some called the learned judge \u201cmentally deranged<\/em>\u201d.\n<\/p>\n