The Supreme Court collegium on Monday recommended the transfer of Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Atul Sreedharan to the Chhattisgarh High Court.

The decision was taken by the Collegium in its meetings held on August 25 and 26.

This comes a few months after he was transferred to Madhya Pradesh from Jammu and Kashmir.

Justice Sreedharan joined the chamber of Senior Advocate Gopal Subramanium in 1992 at Delhi and assisted him till 1997 in several civil and criminal matters before the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, and trial courts.

He practiced independently in Delhi from 1997 to 2000 before shifting to Indore in 2001, where he continued independent practice and worked closely with Senior Advocate Satyendra Kumar Vyas.

He also served as Panel Advocate and Government Advocate for the State of Madhya Pradesh before the Indore Bench of the High Court.

He was appointed as an additional judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on April 7, 2016 and was made a permanent judge on March 17, 2018.

Justice Sreedharan was transferred from Madhya Pradesh to Jammu and Kashmir in April 2023 after the judge himself sought the transfer on grounds of his daughter entering law practice in Madhya Pradesh.

He was transferred back to Madhya Pradesh in March this year.

[Read Collegium Statement]