On a day the government introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to scrap the collegium system of judges appointment, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha has defended the collegium system. The CJI said that there was a concerted campaign to defame the judiciary. Justice Lodha made these remarks while dismissing a PIL that sought a declaration as non-binding a purported decision of the collegium to recommend the name of Karnataka High Court judge, Justice K L Manjunath as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
