NEW DELHI: The government has asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to appoint two lawyers as high court judges but did not cite any reason for its move, a senior government functionary said.

The SC collegium had in 2016 recommended names of Harnaresh Singh Gill and Mohammed Nizamuddin for appointment as judges of the Punjab and Haryana high court and the Calcutta high court respectively.

Recently too, the top court collegium's recommendation for the appointments of two lawyers, one of them a former top court judge's son, as judges of the Allahabad high court was returned for the second time by the government citing complaints against them.

The two lawyers are Mohammad Mansoor and Basharat Ali Khan. Mansoor is the son of former Supreme Court judge late Saghir Ahmed.

