The Central government on Friday cleared the appointment of 24 new judges to the Allahabad High Court.

The Supreme Court Collegium had on September 1 recommended the appointment of 12 lawyers and 14 judicial officers as judges to the High Court.

Union Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal in a tweet announced that 24 names of the total 26 have been cleared for judgeship at the High Court.

The lawyers cleared for appointment are:

- Vivek Saran;

- Vivek Kumar Singh;

- Garima Prashad;

- Sudhanshu Chauhan;

- Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary;

- Swarupama Chaturvedi;

- Siddharth Nandan;

- Kunal Ravi Singh;

- Indrajeet Shukla, and

- Satya Veer Singh.

The names of Advocates Adnan Ahmad and Jai Krishna Upadhyay have not been cleared by the Centre.

The judicial officers elevated to the High Court are:

- Dr. Ajay Kumar- II;

- Chawan Prakash;

- Divesh Chandra Samant;

- Prashant Mishra-I;

- Tarun Saxena;

- Rajeev Bharti;

- Padam Narain Mishra;

- Lakshmi Kant Shukla;

- Jai Prakash Tiwari;

- Devendra Singh-I;

- Sanjiv Kumar;

- Vani Ranjan Agrawal;

- Achal Sachdev, and

- Babita Rani.

Out of the 26 persons cleared for appointment to the High Court, four are women. Two of them - Senior Advocates Garima Prashad and Swarupama Chaturvedi - practiced at the Supreme Court.

At present, High Court has 83 judges against the sanctioned strength of 160. The working strength will now rise to 107.