The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a public interest litigation challenging the Madras high court collegium’s November 2025 recommendations for elevation of judicial officers, which were made after justice J Nisha Banu was excluded from the collegium following her transfer to the Kerala high court, even though she had not yet assumed charge at her new posting. No judicial review of collegium call: SC on justice Banu transfer A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi held that the issues raised were not justiciable and lay within the administrative domain of the CJI and the collegium system. “We do not think the issues raised are justiciable. Such issues are required to be considered by the competent authority on the administrative side. We thus do not deem it proper to entertain this petition,” the bench said in its order, disposing of the plea. The petition was filed by advocate A Prem Kumar, who questioned the validity of the Madras high court collegium’s recommendations made on November 9, 2025, …