Futile exercise if SC & govt engage in finding fault with each other: CJI

At the Law Day function organised by the SC Bar Association and against the backdrop of law minister Kiren Rijiju's recent remarks on opaqueness of the judges selecting-judges system, CJI Chandrachud said, “We as judges are here but for the purpose of ensuring that the soft culture, that sense of constitutional statesmanship between the government and the SC continues to be in harmony to find the right balance in the selection of judges.”

- Dhananjay.Mahapatra

New Delhi: He said it would be a futile exercise if the SC and the Centre engaged in finding fault with each other. “We cannot be constitutional statesmen if we are only at a point where we are only finding faults with each other. We understand that we have a system, and a Constitution, and we need to work our way as constitutional statesmen to find just conclusion. I am sure, with the assistance of distinguished colleagues in the collegium who have great experience of handling difficult situations, we can handle every situation with great harmony and social resolution.”