The apex court was considering a plea filed in 2015 challenging the appointment of the incumbent CVC, K V Chaudhary, and vigilance commissioner (VC) T M Bhasin stating that they did not have 'clean record' and a non-transparent procedure was followed while appointing them. DH file photo
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would not go into the aspect of ‘political favouritism’ but only examine whether a person appointed to the posts of central vigilance commissioner and vigilance commissioners met the criteria of having ‘impeccable integrity.’
The apex court was considering a plea filed in 2015 challenging the appointment of the incumbent CVC, K V Chaudhary, and vigilance commissioner (VC) T M Bhasin stating that they did not have ‘clean record’ and a non-transparent procedure was followed while appointing them.
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M M Shantanagoudar sought to know from Attorney General K K Venugopal whether the decision taken by the selection committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and the Leader of Opposition was unanimous.