Senior advocate Harish Salve on Saturday said that some of India's finest judges were appointed during a period when the executive held full control over judicial appointments.

It may be time to revisit the current system and correct that "folly," he said.

Delivering the 'Kartavyam' Constitutional Lecture organised by the Campus Law Centre of Delhi University as part of a celebration marking 75 years of the Indian Constitution, Salve reflected on the evolution of the judge appointment process and the rise of the Collegium system.

"In 1991, we fought against complete executive domination, when, in the era of initial coalition politics, some very strange things happened in the kind of judges who were appointed. Before that, some of the finest Indian judges came from a system in which the

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