{"id":351933,"date":"2020-05-18T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351933"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:02:14","slug":"sc-lost-its-way-while-cancelling-coal-blocks-2g-licences-rohatgi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-lost-its-way-while-cancelling-coal-blocks-2g-licences-rohatgi\/","title":{"rendered":"SC &#8216;lost its way&#8217; while cancelling coal blocks, 2G licences: Rohatgi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court &#8220;lost its way&#8221; while cancelling all allocations of coal blocks, 2G spectrum licences and iron ore mining in Karnataka and Goa and its zeal to protect the environment dealt a serious blow to the country&#8217;s economy, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the taking over of the power to appoint judges in higher judiciary by the CJI-led collegium, he also said the Supreme Court should &#8220;graciously give up its right to be the sole body to appoint the judges&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rohatgi, who was appointed the Attorney General for India by the NDA government on June 19, 2014 and remained so till June 18, 2017, made the remarks while delivering the Prof N R Madhava Menon memorial lecture on the subject of &#8216;Journey of the Supreme Court from 1950 till now&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court &#8220;lost its way&#8221; while cancelling all allocations of coal blocks, 2G spectrum licences and iron ore mining in Karnataka and Goa and its zeal to protect the environment dealt a serious blow to the country&#8217;s economy, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said on Saturday. Referring to the taking over of the power to appoint judges in higher judiciary by the CJI-led collegium, he also said the Supreme Court should &#8220;graciously give up its right to be the sole body to appoint the judges&#8221;. Rohatgi, who was appointed the Attorney General for India by the NDA government on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}