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The Justice Varma incident, whatever its outcome, highlights the need for reform, not to condemn, but to preserve.

The executive's attempts to introduce judicial reforms and increase accountability of judges have yielded no results. When an inquiry is commenced, it is carried out by other judges based on a framework they have set up, resulting in lingering uncertainties and a severe lack of desired impartiality and transparency. This privilege is not extended to anyone else. The judiciary requires and enforces standards of transparency and integrity from everyone except itself.

Mahua Moitra alleged that the ulterior motive was to bring back the decade-old National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act under the pretext of the Varma case.

In 2015, the SC struck down the NJAC Act, asserting that it violated the basic structure of the Constitution and upheld the primacy of the collegium system.

Kiren Rijiju said that to reduce the number of pending cases, a new system of appointing judges is needed as current system is not efficient

Supreme Court rejects plea to disclose agenda, discussions and resolution of collegium meeting, says only decision is needed to be made public

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said that NJAC was scrapped by SC using judicially evolved doctrine of 'Basic Structure' of Constitution.

Justice Rang Nath Pandey says that appointments under the Collegium system are made on the basis of favouritism and lobbying

The Government has been facing accusations that it has been sitting on recommendations made by the Collegium.

A media circus is not the way to resolve this issue