<h1>Executive primacy in tribunal appointments threatens tribunal independence, prompting constitutional challenge and scrutiny of removal and appointment rules.</h1> The petition challenges the Finance Act, 2017 and rules made under it as conferring executive primacy over qualifications, appointments and removals of tribunal chairpersons and judicial members, arguing these measures compromise tribunal autonomy; it seeks declarations that the impugned statutory provisions and rules are ultra vires relevant enactments and the Constitution because they permit administrative influence over adjudicative bodies.