New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Tuesday pronounce verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the constitutional amendment and enabling law replacing the collegium system for appointments to higher judiciary by the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC).

The court will pronounce its verdict both on the maintainability of the challenge to Constitution (Ninety-Ninth Amendment) Act, 2014, that provides for setting up the NJAC and to the enabling statute to the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act, 2014 and whether the matter be referred to a larger constitution bench to determine if appointment of judges by NJAC violates the independence of judiciary.