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- Justice Dipankar Datta rejected a plea to refer the 2023 election commissioner petitions to a five-judge bench.
- Datta defended the collegium system, calling the “judges appoint judges” notion a myth.
- Datta said the executive holds decisive control over all judicial appointments.
- Datta urged Chief Justice Surya Kant to create a permanent five-judge Constitution bench for future seminal issues.