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

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.