SC extends TDSAT Chairperson tenure for three months
The tenure of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) Chairman has been extended by three months by the Supreme Court of India. The tenure is schedules to end on April 20. The Supreme Court questioned the Centre on as to why the members of the tribunal have not been appointed since October 2019.
The Supreme Court bench is headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde and on hearing the matter via video conferencing asked the Centre as to how the tribunal would function like this since only the Chairperson is there and his tenure would come to an end on April 20.
Observing that tribunals are alternatives to judicial system, the apex court asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta about how the TDSAT would function without sitting members.
"Only the chairperson is there and his tenure ends on April 20. How can the tribunal function like this," the bench said.
Mehta told the bench, also comprising Justices S K Kaul and Deepak Gupta, that he would take instructions from the government on the issue of appointments in TDSAT.
The bench has asked the Centre to fasten the appointment process for members of the tribunal.
The court has posted the matter for further hearing in the first week of May.
Former apex court judge Justice Shiva Kirti Singh is the incumbent Chairperson of TDSAT.
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