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India Today Editors' Roundtable: Ravi Shankar Prasad questions the efficiency of collegium system

New Delhi,UPDATED: May 21, 2017 23:34 IST

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today mounted an offensive on Opposition leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BSP chief Mayawati and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee over the issue of triple talaq.

Participating in a discussion at India Today Editors' Roundtable, Ravi Shankar Prasad today said, "Maximum number of suffers of triple talaq are from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar."

On the question of conflict with the judiciary, Prasad said, "We have fought for judicial independence. There is no clash. But, we wanted to improve functioning of judiciary. We brought NJAC, which was set aside by the Supreme Court. But, we have accepted it."

Later, Prasad questioned the efficiency of collegium system to appoint judges in the higher judiciary. He said, "Before collegiums system was introduced, many judges of high calibre were appointed in the higher judiciary," adding that if collegium system was producing judges of similar calibre. "Collegium system has produced Justice (CS) Karnan."

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