In a significant move to strengthen the higher judiciary, the Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of 33 individuals as Judges across six High Courts. The recommendations include a mix of judicial officers and advocates.
In its meeting held on July 2,,in what can be seen as major development for Punjab and Haryana, the Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of ten judicial officers for appointment as judges in High Courts of the two states.
The judicial officers recommended by the SC Collegium are: Virinder Aggarwal, Mandeep Pannu, Parmod Goyal, Shalini Singh Nagpal, Amarinder Singh Grewal, Subhas Mehla, Surya Partap Singh, Rupinderjit Chahal, Aradhana Sawhney and Yashvir Singh Rathor.
Similarly, the SC Collegium has also recommended the appointment of three judicial officers as judges of the Delhi High Court. They are Shail Jain, Madhu Jain and Vinod Kumar. All these decisions of the SC Collegium were taken in the meetings held on July 1 and July 2.
Similarly, SC Collegium recommended advocate Tuhin Kumar Gedela as a judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. The SC Collegium has also recommended the appointment of advocate Anuroop Singhi and judicial officer Sangeeta Sharma as judges of the Rajasthan High Court.It also recommended the names of 5 judicial officers and 5 lawyers for elevation as judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The lawyers who were recommended to be appointed as judges are Pushpendra Yadav, Anand Singh Bahrawat, Ajay Kumar Nirankari, Jai Kumar Pillai and Himanshu Joshi.
Similarly, the five judicial officers who have been recommended for elevation are Rajesh Kumar Gupta, Alok Awasthi, Ratnesh Chandra Singh Bisen, Bhagwati Prasad Sharma and Pradeep Mittal.The Collegium has recommended that additional judge Justice Biswadeep Bhattacharjee of Meghalaya High Court be made a permanent judge of that court.
It has also approved the proposal for appointment of Shri Tuhin Kumar Gedela, Advocate, as a Judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh," the collegium resolution read.Collegium has recommended the names of 5 judicial officers and 5 lawyers for elevation as judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
The Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and comprising Justices Surya Kant and Vikram Nath recommended the same in its meeting held on July 1.The SC Collegium's recommendations seem to be huge in number in the recent times keeping in view the vacancy of judges in state High Courts. Now the Centre -- after receiving these names -- will deliberate upon these names for their consideration to the appointment of respective judges in State HCs.
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