Nothing wrong in speed, questioning criteria: SC

New Delhi: Questioning the urgency of appointing EC Arun Goel, an SC bench of Justices KM Joseph, Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy and CT Ravikumar on Thursday said, “The vacancy was there since May 15.

- Dhananjay Mahapatra timesgroup.com

Can you tell us what happened between May 15 to November 18? What was that which prevailed on the government to do it in a shortest period of time? Same day the file was processed, same day clearance, same day application and same day appointment. File has not even travelled for 24 hours. Why was the file cleared with lightning fast speed? What kind of evaluation was done?” Attorney general R Venkataramani replied that there was no “disquieting feature” in the appointment and most earlier appointments were done in 2-3 days and fault could not be found in the speed of the decisionmaking process.