The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended that 28 additional judges of the Allahabad High Court be made permanent judges.

A Collegium statement to this effect was issued today. The Judges recommended for being appointed as permanent judges of the Allahabad High Court are:

• Justice Prakash Padia,

• Justice Alok Mathur,

• Justice Pankaj Bhatia,

• Justice Saurabh Lavania,

• Justice Vivek Varma,

• Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh,

• Justice Piyush Agrawal

• Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,

• Justice Jaspreet Singh,

• Justice Rajeev Singh,

• Justice Manju Rani Chauhan,

• Justice Karunesh Singh Pawar,

• Dr. Justice Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,

• Justice Manish Mathur,

• Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal,

• Justice Ram Krishna Gautam,

• Justice Umesh Kumar,

• Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava,

• Justice Anil Kumar-IX,

• Justice Rajendra Kumar-IV,

• Justice Mohd. Faiz Alam Khan,

• Justice Vikas Kunvar Srivastav,

• Justice Virendra Kumar Srivastava,

• Justice Suresh Kumar Gupta,

• Justice Sushri Ghandikota

• Justice Narendra Kumar Johari,

• Justice Raj Beer Singh,

• Justice Ajit Singh.

All 28 judges were elevated as to the Allahabad High Court Bench in November 2018 as additional judges.

Shortly after their appointment was cleared, a petition was moved in the Supreme Court alleging corruption on the part of one of the judges, Justice RK Gautam, from when he was District Judge in Meerut in 2015-16. However, in July 2019, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea.

Read the Collegium Statement issued today: