After Supreme Court collegium's nod early this month, the Central government on Friday cleared the appointment of 24 new judges to the Allahabad High Court. Union law ministry has also cleared names of two advocates as judges of Himachal Padesh Court.
The Supreme Court Collegium had on September 1 recommended the appointment of 12 lawyers and 14 judicial officers as judges to the High Court.Union Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal in a tweet announced that 24 names of the total 26 have been cleared for judgeship at the High Court.
The lawyers cleared for appointment are Vivek Saran,Vivek Kumar Singh, Garima Prashad, Sudhanshu Chauhan, Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary, Swarupama Chaturvedi, Siddharth Nandan, Kunal Ravi Singh, Indrajeet Shukla, and Satya Veer Singh.The names of Advocates Adnan Ahmad and Jai Krishna Upadhyay have not been cleared by the Centre.The judicial officers elevated to the High Court include Dr. Ajay Kumar II, Chawan Prakash,Divesh Chandra Samant,Prashant Mishra-I, Tarun Saxena,Rajeev Bharti,Padam Narain Mishra, Lakshmi Kant Shukla, Jai Prakash Tiwari, Devendra Singh, Sanjiv Kumar, Vani Ranjan Agrawal, Achal Sachdev, and Babita Rani.
Out of the 26 persons cleared for appointment to the High Court, four are women. Two of them - Senior Advocates Garima Prashad and Swarupama Chaturvedi - practiced at the Supreme Court.
At present, High Court has 83 judges against the sanctioned strength of 160. The working strength will now rise to 107.The Allahabad High Court has a sanctioned strength of 160 judges, comprising 119 permanent judges and 41 additional judges. This strength can be temporarily increased by the President under Article 224 of the Constitution of India to handle increased workload or pending cases.
Meanwhile, the Central government on Friday cleared the appointment of two advocates as the judges of Himachal Pradesh High Court. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced the development via X. The lawyers who have been cleared for appointment include Jiya Lal Bhardwaj and Romesh Verma.The government decision came pursuant to the recommendation made by the Supreme Court Collegium on September 15. The High Court is currently functioning with 11 judges as against its approved strength of 17.
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