The Union Ministry of Law Friday notified the appointment of four judicial officers as additional judges of the Madras High Court. .The four new judges are R Sakthivel, P Dhanabal, Chinnaswamy Kumarappan and K Rajasekar.The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their appointments by a resolution dated March 21. In that resolution, the Collegium had said that it had by previous resolution dated January 17 recommended the appointment of advocate Ramaswamy Neelakandan and reiterated the appointment of R John Sathyan to Madras High Court.Hence, it had asked the government to notify the appointments of Neelakandan and Sathyan saying that withholding recommendations disturbs seniority.Their names are, however, yet to be cleared by the government..As on May 1, Madras High Court is functioning with 61 judges as against its sanctioned strength of 75, a vacancy position of 14..[Read Notification]
The Union Ministry of Law Friday notified the appointment of four judicial officers as additional judges of the Madras High Court. .The four new judges are R Sakthivel, P Dhanabal, Chinnaswamy Kumarappan and K Rajasekar.The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their appointments by a resolution dated March 21. In that resolution, the Collegium had said that it had by previous resolution dated January 17 recommended the appointment of advocate Ramaswamy Neelakandan and reiterated the appointment of R John Sathyan to Madras High Court.Hence, it had asked the government to notify the appointments of Neelakandan and Sathyan saying that withholding recommendations disturbs seniority.Their names are, however, yet to be cleared by the government..As on May 1, Madras High Court is functioning with 61 judges as against its sanctioned strength of 75, a vacancy position of 14..[Read Notification]
