New Delhi, April 5 -- The Centre has informed the Delhi High Court that seniority among members of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for appointing an acting president is determined on the basis of an established convention, under which the judicial member who takes oath first is treated as the senior-most member, since there is no statutory framework prescribing criteria for deciding such seniority. This was in response to a petition by NCLT's technical member Kaushalendra Kumar Singh, who challenged the Centre's March 16 decision appointing Bachu Venkat Balram Das as NCLT's acting president. In an affidavit filed on March 30, the Centre said that this approach was also followed for appointing judicial member Bachu Venkat Balram Das...