The Central Government has notified the appointment of sixteen additional judges of the Allahabad High Court as permanent judges.

As per a notification dated September 4, 2019, the following judges have been made permanent judges of the High Court:

1. Justice Rajiv Joshi
2. Justice Salil Kumar Rai
3. Justice Jayant Banerji
4. Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan
5. Justice Saral Srivastava
6. Justice Jahangir Jamshed Munir
7. Justice Rajiv Gupta
8. Justice Siddharth
9. Justice Ajit Kumar
10. Justice Rajnish Kumar
11. Justice Abdul Moin
12. Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh
13. Justice Rajeev Misra
14. Justice Vivek Kumar Singh
15. Justice Chandra Dhari Singh
16. Justice Ajay Bhanot

The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended the appointment of these 16 additional judges as permanent judges of the High Court in July this year.

By the same resolution, the Collegium had also deferred the recommending of three other names proposed for appointment as permanent judges of the Allahabad High Court, i.e. those of Justices Rahul Chaturvedi, Irshad Ali and Neeraj Tiwari.

Read the Notification: