7 judges shifted, Justice Gupta goes to Patna HC

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 11

Justice Sureshwar Thakur of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court. His name figured on the list of seven judges whose transfers were notified by the Department of Justice on Monday.

Justice Rajan Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has been transferred to the Patna High Court.

These transfers were recommended by the SC Collegium led by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana last month. Justice TS Sivagnanam has been transferred from the Madras HC to the Calcutta HC, while Justice PB Bajanthri of the Karnataka HC and Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma of the Rajasthan HC have been transferred to the Patna High Court.

Justice T Amarnath Goud of the Telangana HC has been transferred to the Tripura HC, while Justice Subhash Chand of the Allahabad HC has been shifted to the Jharkhand HC. The Centre also notified the appointments of three advocates and two judicial officials as new judges to the Rajasthan HC, which has been functioning with only 23 judges against a sanctioned strength of 50 judges.

Those appointed are: Farzand Ali, Sudesh Bansal, Anoop Kumar Dhand, Vinod Kumar Bharwani and Madan Gopal Vyas. Ali, Bansal and Dhand are lawyers, while Bharwani and Vyas are judicial officers. Their names were recommended by the SC Collegium on September 1.