Government is learnt to have requested the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider the names of three senior judges it had recommended for elevation to the apex court.
Sources said government had written to the collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir to reconsider its recommendation to elevate Orissa High Court Chief Justice V Gopal Gowda, Karnataka High Court Chief
Justice Vikramjit Sen and Madras High Court Chief Justice M Y Iqbal.
Reasons for returning their names were not immediately known.
Under the present system, if the collegium sends back the names to the government again, then it is bound to consider
them for elevation.
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