Centre clears appointment of 24 new Allahabad High Court judges

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.