Supreme Court tells government to select Lokpal candidate soon

The Supreme Court urged the Centre to expedite the process in selecting a candidate for the Lokpal. The top court's directive came when the Centre submitted that a high-powered committee, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had met on April 10, in order to recommend an eminent jurist to help in the selection of Lokpal.

"KK Venugopal, Attorney General, has made a statement that in the meeting of the Selection Committee held on April 10, 2018 recommendations for induction/appointment of an eminent jurist in the Committee have been made and approval of the recommendation is presently pending," a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumathi recorded in their order.

"As steps for appointment of the Lokpal have been taken, we do not consider it expedient to pass any further orders at this stage except to express the expectation of the court that appointment of Lokpal will be made at the earliest possible," the Bench said.