SC collegium recommends elevation of 5 judicial officers as judges of Karnataka high court

| PTI | Apr 20, 2020, 20:48 IST

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium on Monday recommended to the government elevation of five judicial officers as judges of Karnataka high court.

The officers are - Shivashankar Amarannavar, M Ganeshaiah Uma, Vedavyasachar Srishananda, Hanchate Sanjeevkumar and Padmaraj Nemachandra Desai.

In a series of decisions, the collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, also approved the proposal for appointment of three additional judges of the Calcutta high court - justices Bibek Chaudhuri, Subhasis Dasgupta, and Suvra Ghosh - as permanent judges of the high court.

The collegium also put a stamp of approval on the proposal for elevation of the three advocates as judges of the Andhra Pradesh high court - Boppudi Krishna Mohan, K Suresh Reddy and K

Lalitha Kumari

Besides, it approved the proposal for elevation of advocate B Vijaysen Reddy as a judge of the Telangana high court.

Apart from

CJI

Bobde, Justices N V Ramana, Arun Mishra, R F Nariman and R Banumathi are part of the new 5-judge collegium.

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G.N. Balakrishnan

1669 days ago

While the COLLEGIUM ‘S recommendations have to be scrutiniserapidly with all sincerity earnestness, to fill up the mounting vacancies in several HIGH COURTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, it is also incumbent on the COLLEGIUM, to have a fresh look at the JAPC, duly passed by the parliament, instead of having a closed mind, treating the matter as one of its own egos, as more than 50% of the litigations pending in all the curtsrelate to cases invoving the Govt. The Central Govt, defininitely do have a stake and a legitimate grievance at not having a representative in the JUDICIAL BODY EMPOWERED TO APPOINT THE JUDGES, and make it a much more TRANSPARENT REGULATORY BODY in providing them a voice, while they are the most affected party in the whole affair. TRANSPARENCY SHOULD BE A BYEWORD , NOT ONLY IN ALL OTHER MATTERS, BUT A VIRTUAL NECESSITY, when it relates to a body sitting in judgement over cases relating to their involvement in more than 50% of the pending cases. Acceptance of the JAPC legislation, with modifications, will remove all the doubts and misgivings of the ill founded bias or prejudice of the JUDICIARY , who have been acquitting themselves in more than 99% of the cases, setting up a UNIQUE BENCHMARK IN DELIVERANCE OF JUDGEMENT.

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