Raising questions on the appointment of Election Commissioner Arun Goyal , the Supreme Court has asked the Central Government to present the file. To Goyal 14 was appointed Election Commissioner on Nov. , Whether some improper step was taken for the appointment of Goyal

The bench headed by Justice KM Joseph A five-judge constitution bench said that it wanted to know whether some undue step was taken for the appointment of Arun Goel as the Election Commissioner. Because he was recently given VRS.

Court rejects Attorney General’s objection Attorney General R Venkataramani’s objections were dismissed at the behest of the court. The members of the bench include Justice Ajay Rastogi, Justice Aniruddha Bose, Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice CT Ravikumar. The bench told the Attorney General, we want to see whether the process was followed. We will not take this as legal action and will keep it for our records, but we would like to know as you have claimed that everything is fine. Since we are hearing the matter and the appointment has taken place in between, there can be a connection between them. You have time till tomorrow. Present the documents.

Prashant Bhushan raised the question, how suddenly Arun Goyal was made Election Commissioner

Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan said, this Election Commissioner was working as a secretary-level officer in the government till Thursday. Suddenly, he was given VRS on Friday and appointed as Election Commissioner. Justice Joseph said that as far as he remembers, it takes three months for a person to take voluntary retirement.

) Who is Arun Goyal

of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Goyal, a Punjab cadre officer of the batch Appointed Election Commissioner on Nov. Gone. He 60 at the age of 37 was about to retire on December. After assuming his new role, Goyal will succeed incumbent CEC Rajeev Kumar who retires in February. After that the next Chief Election Commissioner will be there. In May, a vacancy was created in the Election Commission after the retirement of erstwhile CEC Sushil Chandra.

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Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 8: 13 PM IST