2015 (10) TMI 2687 - SUPREME COURT

Constitutional validity of the Constitution (Ninety-ninth Amendment) Act, 2014 as also, that of the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014 - whether primacy of judiciary and absence of Executive interference in appointment of judges is part of such basic structure? - Held that:- Once the constitutional validity of Article 124A(1) is held to be unsustainable, the impugned constitutional amendment, as well as, the NJAC Act, would be rendered a nullity. The impugned Amendment and the Act are struck down as unconstitutional. Pre-existing scheme of appointment of judges stands revived. The matter be listed for consideration of the surviving issue of grievances as to working of pre-existing system.