The stand-off between the judiciary and the legislature over the procedure for appointing judges comes at a time when the country's 24 high courts have 397 pending vacancies for judges, and what's more, eight of them having acting chief justices.
It is not clear at this point whether these vacancies can now be filled through the earlier collegium system or that will have to wait till the system is improved as the Supreme Court has said it should be.
It is not clear at this point whether these vacancies can now be filled through the earlier collegium system or that will have to wait till the system is improved as the Supreme Court has said it should be.