One day after Bangalore lawyers suspended their hunger strike, the Centre has notified the appointment of five additional judges for Karnataka High Court.
The five new judges are:
Krishna Dixit is the Additional Solicitor General of India in the Karnataka High Court, while R Devdas and BM Shyam Prasad are Senior Advocates.
S Sunil Dutt Yadav, a 1996 graduate of National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, is the second NLSIU alumnus to be elevated to a high court, after Shekhar Bobby Saraf last year.
Last year, the Supreme Court collegium had also recommended C Saravanan to be appointed as a judge of the Madras High Court. However, his appointment is yet to be notified.
Yadav will be the first NLSIU graduate to be appointed as a judge of the Karnataka High Court.
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Correction: We had erroneously reported that Sunil Dutt Yadav is the third graduate from NLS to be appointed as a judge. This error is regretted.