24 Sep 2026
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury dissented: Recorded dissent on procedure: 212 names sent the night before and a six-name shortlist eight to ten minutes before the meeting. He said he had nothing against the two appointees.
Education: MBBS (Government Medical College, Amritsar); Master's in History (Guru Nanak Dev University) - per ECI profile and The Tribune; The Tribune also reports a law degree
The source lists these without dates. They appear in the source's order.
In its reply to the stay applications, the Union of India set out the timeline from 1 February and said the selection meeting was moved from 15 to 14 March on 9 March, before the court listed the stay applications for 15 March. It said the Act was made as Article 324(2) contemplates.
The reply as recorded in the court's order does not address why names were circulated only on the day of the meeting.
The Union's reply was filed against a duplicate of this entry that has since been merged into it. The record documents Chowdhury's 12 March request for profiles and the Supreme Court's 21 March order, which refused a stay and commented on the selection procedure.
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