{"id":237012,"date":"2021-12-08T18:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T12:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=237012"},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:57:05","slug":"no-plan-to-grant-statutory-body-status-to-law-commission-centres-affidavit-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/no-plan-to-grant-statutory-body-status-to-law-commission-centres-affidavit-in-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"No plan to grant statutory body status to Law Commission: Centre’s affidavit in Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Central Government has said it is not considering making the Law Commission a statutory body in an affidavit in the Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Ministry of Law and Justice affidavit said the government was considering the appointment of Chairperson and Member of the 22nd Law Commission of India and that the Law Commission was constituted on February 21, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Central government affidavit, by Suneel Sachdeva, Deputy Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law, is in reply to the petition filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking a direction to the Centre to appoint chairperson and members of the Law Commission of India within a month and giving it the status of a statutory body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The affidavit said the petitioner’s (Upadhyay) invoking the extraordinary jurisdiction of the Apex Court in this matter is frivolous and not maintainable being devoid of merit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat the petitioner has not come with clean hands and has raised an issue which clearly falls out of the doctrine of separation of power and the Government is presently seized of the matter regarding appointment of Chairperson and Members of the Law Commission of India,\u201d the affidavit reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the petition, the cause of action accrued on August 31, 2018, and continued, when the tenure of 21st Law Commission came to an end and the Centre neither extended the tenure of its Chairperson and Members nor notified Twenty-Second Law Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Further though on 19.2.2020, the Centre approved the constitution of Twenty-Second Law Commission but it has not appointed the Chairperson and Members till date, said the petitioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Highlighting the importance of the Law Commission, the petitioner has submitted, \u201cInjury to the public is extremely large as the Law Commission of India is headless since 1.9.2018 hence unable to examine public issues. Even the directions of the Constitutional Courts to Law Commission have become dead letters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n