In yet another unprecedented decision, a three-member Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana has recommended 68 names in one go for the elevation as judges in 12 High Courts.
The three-member SC collegium included Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justice UU Lalit, and Justice AM Khanwilkar.
After the two meetings held on August 25 and September 1, the SC collegium considered names of 112 candidates (82 from the Bar and 31 from the Judicial Service). Later, the collegium cleared 68 names (12 High Courts, 44 are from the Bar and 24 are from the Judicial Service).
The 12 High Courts include
- Allahabad High Court (16 names)
- Rajasthan High Court (7 names),
- Calcutta High Court (10 names),
- Jharkhand High Court (5 names),
- Jammu and Kashmir High Court (4 names),
- Madras High Court (4 names),
- Madhya Pradesh High Court (1 name),
- Karnataka High Court (2 names),
- Punjab and Haryana High Court (4 names),
- Kerala High Court (8 names),
- Chhattisgarh High Court (2 names), and
- Gauhati High Court (5 names)
Names Recommended for Allahabad High Court
- Vimlendu Tripathi
- Dhruv Mathur
- Vikas Budhwar
- Vikram D Chauhan
- Rishad Murtaza
- Shree Prakash Singh
- Subhash Vidyarthi
- Brij Raj Singh
- Ashutosh Srivastava
- Krishan Pahal
- Sameer Jain
- Shishir Jain, and
- Chandra Kumar Rai
- Umesh Chandra Sharma
- Syed Wiaz Mian
- Om Prakash Tripathi
For Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Ganesh Ram Mina
- Anoop Dhand
- Sudesh Bansal
- Farzad Ali
- Uma Shankar Vyas
- Madan Gopal Vyas
- Vinod Kumar Bharwani
For Calcutta High Court
- Krishna Rao
- Koyeli Bhattacharya
- Shampa Dutt
- Bibhas Ranjan De
- Ajoy Kumar Banerjee
- Sidharth Roy Chowdhury
- Amitesh Banerjee
- Jaytosh Majumdar
- Lapita Banerji
- Raja Basu Chowdhury
For Jharkhand High Court
- Pradeep Kumar Srivastava
- Ambuj Nath
- Gautam Kumar Choudhary
- Sanjay Prasad
- Navneet Kumar
For Jammu and Kashmir High Court
- Mohan Lal
- Mohd. Akram Choudhary
- Rahul Bharti
- Moksha Kazmi (Khajuria)
For Madras High Court
- R. Vijayakumar
- D. Bharatha Chakravarthy
- Sundaram Srimathy
- Mohammed Shaffiq
For Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav
For Karnataka High Court
- Nagendra R. Naik
- Aditya Sondhi
For Punjab and Haryana High Court
- Pankaj Jain
- Vinod Sharma (Bhardwaj)
- Jasjeet Singh Bedi
- Vikas Puri
For Kerala High Court
- Sanjeetha Kalloor Arakkal
- Basant Balaji
- Sobha Annamma Eapen
- Arvinda Kumar Babu Thavarakkattil
- Sophy Thomas
- PG Ajithkumar
- C Jayachandran
- CS Sudha
Chhattisgarh High Court
- Sachin Singh Rajput
- Deepak Kumar Tiwari
Gauhati High Court
- Devashish Baruah
- Kakheto Sema
- Arun Dev Choudhary
- Malasri Nandi
- Marli Vankung (might become first-ever High Court Judge from Mizoram)
Recently, 9 new judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court.
As per the current data available, High Courts have 465 vacancies against a total strength of 1089 judges.
