Supreme Court Collegium recommends appointment of 68 new judges to 12 High Courts
Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India, NV Ramana has recommended the appointment of 68 new judges to 12 High Courts across the country.
The decisions were made in two Collegium meetings, one held on August 24 and the other on September 1.
The Collegium considered around 100 names before it picked the 68. Out of the 68, 44 are lawyers while 24 are judicial officers. 11 out of 68 are women.
One of them, Marli Vakung is from a Scheduled Tribe community and is also the first woman District Judge from Mizoram to be recommended for High Court judgeship.
Kahketo Sema is the first person from Nagaland to be recommended for High Court judgeship.
The breakup of the number of judges recommended for elevations to different High Courts are as follows:
Out of the above, 12 names are reiteration of recommendations made earlier by the Collegium.
Download the full list of selections in pdf here.
| High Court | No. of judges recommended | Names |
|---|---|---|
| Allahabad | 16 | Chandra Kumar Rai, Shishir Jain, Krishan Pahal, Sameer Jain, Ashutosh Srivastava, Subhash Vidyarthi, Brij Raj Singh, Shree Prakash Singh, Vikas Budhwar, Vikram D Chauhan, Rishad Murtaza, Dhruv Mathur, Vimlendu Tripathi, Om Prakash Tripathi, Umesh Chandra Sharma, Syed Waiz Mian, |
| Calcutta | 10 | Shampa Dutt (Paul), Bibhas Ranjan De, Siddhartha Roy Chowdhury, Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, Krishna Rao, Koyeli Bhattacharyya, Jaytosh Majumdar, Amitesh Banerjee, Raja Basu Chowdhury, Lapita Banerji |
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | Sachin Singh Rajput, Deepak Kumar Tiwari |
| Gauhati | 5 | Kakheto Sema, Devashis Baruah, Arun Dev Choudhury, Malasri Nandi, Marli Vankung |
| Jammu & Kashmir High Court | 4 | Mohan Lal, Mohd. Akram Chowdhary, Rahul Bharti, Moksha Kazmi (Khajuria) |
| Jharkhand | 5 | Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, Gautam Kumar Choudhary, Ambuj Nath, Navneet Kumar, Sanjay Prasad |
| Karnataka | 2 | Nagendra R. Naik, Aditya Sondhi |
| Kerala | 8 | Shoba Annamma Eapen, Sanjeetha Kalloor Arakkal, Basant Balaji, Aravinda Kumar Babu Thavarakkattil, C Jayachandran, Sophy Thomas, PG Ajithkumar, CS Sudha |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav |
| Madras | 4 | Sundaram Srimathy, D Bharatha Chakravarthy, R Vijayakumar, Mohammed Shaffiq |
| Punjab & Haryana | 4 | Vikas Suri, Vinod Sharma (Bhardwaj), Pankaj Jain, Jasjit Singh Bedi |
| Rajasthan | 7 | Ganesh Ram Meena, Sudesh Bansal, Anoop Dhand, Uma Shankar Vyas, Vinod Kumar Bharwani, Madan Gopal Vyas, Farzand Ali |