Justice (retd) Dharam Vir Sharma,who was a member of the three-judge Allahabad High Court bench which delivered the landmark Ayodhya verdict on September 30,2010,has knocked the Supreme Court doors after being denied a seat in the National Green Tribunal. A bench of justices D K Jain and A R Dave,before whom the matter was listed today,however,rescued itself from the matter and directed that it be listed before another bench. According to Justice Sharma,the high-powered selection panel which picks both judicial and non-judicial members for the 20-member body failed to appoint him despite being selected in June this year in the categories earmarked for judicial members. The minimum eligibility criteria for judicial members is that the incumbent should be a judge of a high court,according to his counsel Subodh Patil. The National Green Tribunal (NGT),a judicial body aimed at expediting environment-related cases,began functioning from April this year.
