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Collegium System Of Supreme Court

The recent controversy over the transfer of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Justice VijayaKamleshTahilramani, to the Meghalaya High Court has once again brought to the fore a long-standing debate on the functioning of the ‘Collegium’ of judges that makes appointments and transfers in the higher judiciary. Consider the following statements about the Collegium System of Supreme Court:

  1. The Collegium of judges is purely the Supreme Court’s invention and not figure in the Constitution.
  2. The First Judges Case (1981) led to the introduction of the Collegium system.
  3. The Second Judges Case(1993)expanded the Collegium to a five-member body, comprising the CJI and four of his senior-most colleagues.

Choose the correct answers from the codes given below:

A
Only 1
B
Only 2
C
Only 3
D
1, 2 and 3