DRAFT CONSTITUTION 593
Mr. President : There have been two amendments moved. Both have been accepted by Dr.Ambedkar. I will now put them to the vote.
“That with reference to amendment No. 1883 of the List of amendments, in clause (1) of article 106, after the words ‘ Chief Justice may ’ the words ‘ with the previous consent of the President and ’ be inserted.”
“ That in clause (1) of article 106, after the words ‘ High Court’ where they occur for the second time, the words ‘duly qualified for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court’ be inserted.”
Folling amendments were adopted.
[Both the above amendments were accepted. Article 106, as amended, was added to the constitution]
ARTICLE 107
Mr. President : Amendment No. 1884. This is a negative amendment. So I rule it out.
Amendment No. 1885. That question has been decided. So this need not be moved.
Shri Jaspat Roy Kapoor : I am not moving amendment No. 1886 as there is another amendment on the same lines.
Mr. President: Amendment No. 1887 is more or less a verbal amendment. So it need not be moved.
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I beg to move:
“That in article 107 the words ‘ subject to the provisions of this article ’ be deleted.”
Those words are quite unnecessary.
Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : I move :
“ That in article 107, in line 3, after the words ‘ at any time ’, the words ‘ with the previous consent of the President’ be inserted.”
(Amendment Nos. 1889 and 1890 were not moved.)
†Mr. President : We have now the amendments and the article for discussion.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I accept amendment 125 moved by Shri T. T. Krishnamachari.
The amendment was adopted.
ARTICLE 108
‡The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Mr. President, Sir, I move :
“That for amendment No. 1891 of the List of Amendments, the following be substituted :—
“That for article 108, the following articles be substituted :
- The Supreme Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court including the power to punish for contempt of itself.
- CAD, Vol. VIII, 27th May 1949, p.377.
† Ibid p. 377.
‡ Ibid, p. 379.