New Delhi: The Central Government on Friday, March 3, notified the elelvation of 20 more justices as permanent judges in various High Courts.
On Friday, Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju tweeted about this and sent his best wishes to them.
"As per relevant provisions under the Indian Constitution, the following Additional Judges are appointed as Permanent Judges of respective High Courts. I extend my best wishes to them.", he tweeted.
Last month, the names of these additional judges were proposed by the Supreme Court Collegium, which is led by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, to be made permanent judges in the high courts of Allahabad, Mumbai, Madras, and Delhi.
In its resolution, the Supreme Court Collegium recommended that Justice Amit Sharma, an Additional Judge, be appointed as a Permanent Judge of the High Court of Delhi. It has also suggested the appointment of 10 additional judges to the High Court of Judicature in Allahabad, four additional judges to the High Court of Bombay, and five additional judges to the Madras High Court as permanent judges of those high courts.
The collegium stated in the file pertaining to the proposal for Justice Amit Sharma, Additional Judge, to be appointed as a Permanent Judge of the High Court of Delhi that it is of the considered opinion that Justice Amit Sharma, Additional Judge, is suitable for being appointed as a Permanent Judge of that High Court and recommended him to be appointed as such.
Permanent Judge of the High Court of Delhi against an existing vacancy. The High Court of Delhi's Collegium overwhelmingly recommended Justice Amit Sharma, an Additional Judge, for appointment as a Permanent Judge of that High Court on January 9, 2023.
Judges of the Supreme Court who are familiar with the matters of the High Court of Delhi were consulted in order to determine Justice Amit Sharma's fitness and suitability for appointment as a Permanent Judge and to determine his eligibility for elevation under the Memorandum of Procedure.
The committee set up by the Supreme Court Collegium's resolution on October 26, 2017, to evaluate Shri Justice Amit Sharma's judgements, has turned in its report.
Five Additional Judges—Justices Sundaram Srimathy, Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, Justice R. Vijayakumar, Justice Mohammed Shaffiq, and Justice J. Sathya Narayana Prasad have been recommended by the Collegium to serve as Permanent Judges of the Madras High Court.
The Madras High Court Collegium unanimously recommended the five Additional Judges listed above for appointment as Permanent Judges of that High Court on November 21, 2022. The recommendation has received the support of both Tamil Nadu's Governor and Chief Minister.
The Collegium also said that it was of the opinion that Justices Rajesh Narayandas Laddha, Sanjay Ganpatrao Mehare, Govinda Ananda Sanap, and Shivkumar Ganpatrao Dige, Additional Judges, were qualified for appointment as Permanent Judges of the High Court of Bombay.
The four Additional Judges mentioned above were unanimously nominated for appointment as Permanent Judges of the High Court of Bombay by the Collegium of that court on December 15, 2022. The Governors of Maharashtra and Goa, as well as their Chief Ministers, support the aforementioned proposition.
In order to fill the current vacancies on the High Court of Judicature in Allahabad, the Collegium decided to recommend that Justices Chandra Kumar Rai, Krishan Pahal, Sameer Jain, Ashutosh Srivastava, Subhash Vidyarthi, Brij Raj Singh, Shree Prakash Singh, Vikas Budhwar, Om Prakash Tripathi, and Vikram D. Chauhan, Additional Judges, be appointed as Permanent Judges.
The Collegium of the High Court of Judicature in Allahabad unanimously recommended the ten Additional Judges listed above for appointment as Permanent Judges of that High Court on November 23, 2022. The aforementioned recommendation has received the support of both the Chief Minister and the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.
