NEW DELHI: Former law minister M Veerappa Moily on Sunday said the system to select judges was tilted against deprived sections of society, especially the backward classes.

“No one can argue that the backward classes do not possess the talent to become judges,” Moily told TOI and argued for a National Judicial Service Commission .

He said such an all-India examination to recruit judges would help backward classes get adequate representation in the judiciary.

Later, these judges could find their rightful place in constitutional courts, he said. The Congress leader also favoured a National Judicial Appointments Commission to select judges of the SC and HCs.

Moily said the collegium system for appointment of judges was flawed and needed reform.

Moily, who is giving final touches to his book ‘Wheels of Justice’, said he had laid the foundation of the successful national law schools.

