SC refuses to advance hearing on plea against CVC and VC
October 06, 2015 19:37
The Supreme Court today refused to advance the date of hearing on a plea challenging the recent appointments of Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra, did not allow the plea of senior advocate Ram Jethmalani that the matter needed urgent hearing prior to October 27, the date which has already been fixed. "There cannot be an earlier date than this. We will try our best to hear the matter on October 27," the bench said.
The recent PIL, filed by NGO Common Cause through lawyer Prashant Bhushan, challenges the appointments on the grounds that the CVC and one VC do not have "clean record" and a "complete non-transparency" procedure was followed while appointing them. Earlier, the court had sought the responses from the Centre, the CVC and the VC on the PIL.
Jethmalani had sought the court's permission to inspect the records filed by the government in this regard. But the bench said the records "should come to us first. Records must be inspected by us first."
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