Why has no ‘distinguished jurist’ been made Supreme Court judge in 76 years? Justice Ujjal Bhuyan asks

He suggested two possible reasons for this.

“The first is that earlier, when the collegium system was not there, in the view of the Central Government, and thereafter, when the collegium system came into being, in the view of the collegium, there is not enough depth in Indian academia to be seriously considered for elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court,” he said.