NJAC: Supreme Court dismisses Review Petition on Delay and Merits [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has dismissed the review petition filed against the 2015 judgment which had stuck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)..The review petition which was filed by National Lawyers’ Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms was dismissed by a Bench of CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Madan B Lokur, Kurian Joseph, AM Khanwilkar and Ashok Bhushan..There was a delay of more than 470 days in filing the review petition. The Court noted the same in its order stating,.“There is a delay of 470 days in filing the present Review Petition, for which no satisfactory explanation has been offered.”.The petition is liable to be dismissed on the ground of delay alone, the Court held. Even otherwise, the review petition is devoid of merits, the Court concluded..Hence the review petition was dismissed on the ground of delay as well as on merits..“The Review Petition is liable to be dismissed on the ground of delay alone. Even otherwise, we have carefully gone through the Review Petition and the connected papers. We do not find any merit in the same. The Review Petition is dismissed on the ground of delay as well as on merits.”.It was on October 16, 2015, that the Supreme Court had struck down National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), and the Constitutional amendments involved, on the ground that they violate the Constitution of India..The judgment which ran into 1030 pages was delivered by a Bench of Justices JS Khehar, Jasti Chelameswar, Madan B Lokur, Kurian Joseph and AK Goel..Read the order below: