The Court had left it to the Centre to frame a Memorandum of Procedure to carry out the directions in the NJAC case. A seemingly, harmless administrative task which should have been long complete was instead converted into a tug-of-war spectacle as the Centre tried to badger the Collegium into accepting a procedure deemed convenient by it – definitely get to something indirectly if you cannot get to it directly. The Court, played into the Government’s hands by sending and re-sending the MoP to the Law Ministry but failed to take up the matter on the judicial side and summon the relevant official from the Ministry.