Centre notifies appointments of seven more judges in three HCs

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 14

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The Centre on Thursday notified the appointments of seven judges to the high courts of Patna, Allahabad and Bombay.

Those appointed were: Advocates Sandeep Kumar, Purnendu Singh, Satyavrat Verma and Rajesh Kumar Verma to the Patna High Court; judicial officer Om Prakash Tripathi to the Allahabad High Court and judicial officers Anil Laxman Pansare and Sandipkumar Chandrabhan More to the Bombay High Court, the Department of Justice said in separate notifications.

This is the fifth set of appointments notified by the government following the recent recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium to fill judicial vacancies in various high courts – most of which have been functioning with lesser number of judges compared to their sanctioned strength.

Yesterday, the Centre had notified the appointments of 14 judges to the high courts of Telangana, Kerala and Orissa which will get seven, four and three judges respectively.

Earlier, it had on Tuesday notified the appointments of 17 new judges to the Allahabad, Madras and Gauhati high courts. On October 11, three advocates and two judicial officers were elevated as judges of the Rajasthan High Court.

Similarly, on October 9, eight judges were elevated as chief justices of high courts and five high court chief justices were transferred based on recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium.