New Delhi, The Supreme Court docket collegium on Tuesday really helpful Patna Excessive Court docket Chief Justice Okay Vinod Chandran to be appointed as a choose of the apex courtroom.
The five-judge collegium led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna in a gathering held on Tuesday really helpful the identify of Justice Chandran, who was appointed as a choose of the Kerala Excessive Court docket on November 8, 2011.
Justice Chandran was elevated because the Patna Excessive Court docket Chief Justice and has been serving the place since March 29, 2023.
Given the Centre clears the advice, the Supreme Court docket judges’ power will rise to 33 in comparison with the sanctioned power of 34 judges.
Supreme Court docket choose Justice C T Ravikumar demitted workplace on January 3.
“He has served as a choose of the excessive courtroom for greater than 11 years and as a chief justice of a giant excessive courtroom for greater than a 12 months. Throughout his lengthy tenure as a choose and chief justice of the excessive courtroom, Justice Chandran has acquired important expertise in various fields of legislation,” stated the collegium decision.
The apex courtroom collegium additionally comprising Justices B R Gavai, Surya Kant, Hrishikesh Roy and Abhay Oka stated Justice Chandran stood at quantity 13 within the mixed all-India seniority listing of excessive courtroom judges.
“Within the seniority of judges hailing from the excessive courtroom of Kerala, Justice Okay Vinod Chandran stands at serial no 1. Whereas recommending his identify, the collegium has considered the truth that there isn’t a illustration on the bench of the Supreme Court docket from the Excessive Court docket of Kerala. The collegium has, subsequently, unanimously really helpful that Justice Okay Vinod Chandran be appointed as a choose of the Supreme Court docket of India,” the decision stated.
One other decision of the collegium really helpful the switch of Bombay Excessive Court docket Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya to the Delhi Excessive Court docket.
Justice Vibhu Bakhru is at the moment serving as performing Chief Justice of the Delhi Excessive Court docket after Justice Manohan was elevated to the Supreme Court docket.
The collegium additional really helpful Telangana Excessive Court docket Chief Justice Alok Aradhe’s switch to the Bombay Excessive Court docket.
It additionally accredited the proposal to nominate extra judges Justice Kardak Ete and Mridul Kumar Kalita as everlasting judges of Gauhati Excessive Court docket.
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