Constituent Assembly Debates Tuesday 29th July 1947 Official Report

Under the present Constitution the suggestion that is made in certain quarters that the President of the Union with the advice of some Council or some Panel of Judges should have the power of removal is not I venture to submit a proposition which will meet with the acceptance of the House. [...] That will bring the highest judicial dignitary in the land the Chief Justice or the Chief Justices of the TT Courts into the position of a member of the Indian Civil ServiceREPORT OF THE UNION CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE 943 Imagine the President appointing a special Commission of a few judges to enquire into the conduct of the Chief Juitice of India or the Chief Justice of the Provincial High Court. [...] The panel of judges will therefore have the first voice in the matter of the selection of the judges of the Supreme Court. [...] The second point Sir that was referred to in the course of the debate is the one relating to the appointment of the Judges of the. [...] Then the establishment of a High Court in a province will be entirely within the jurisdiction of that legislature whereas the appointment of the judges as if that is more important than the establishment of the High Court is to be regulated by the President of the Union.