The collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India has recommended appointment of four new judges to the Supreme Court, one of them a lawyer, and inter-high court transfers of many chief justices, including Uttarakhand CJ K M Joseph to Telangana HC.Joseph was recently in the national headlines when he headed a bench that quashed imposition of central rule in Uttarakhand and made scathing observations against the Modi government.
The names recommended for appointment as SC judges are Allahabad HC CJ Dhananjay Chandrachud, Kerala CJ Ashok Bhushan, Madhya Pradesh CJ A M Khanwilkar and senior advocate L Nageshwar Rao.
Rao is set to join a super-ex clusive club of advocates to gain straight entry to the SC: Kuldip Singh, N Santosh Hegde, and more recently , U U Lalit and R F Nariman. LNageshwar Raowas an additional solicitor general in the UPA regime as well as under the NDA gov as well as under the NDA government before resigning last year.
Justice Chandrachud, who was one of the youngest to be appointed a judge, at the age of 40, in Bombay HC, will come to the SC with a legacy.His father Y V Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India for more than seven years from February 1978 till July 1985.With nine years of service left, the son stands a strong chance of creating history by also becoming CJI.
Only once before have both father and son made it to the SC N H Bhagwati and P N Bhagwati, who went on to become CJI. The SC has a sanctioned strength of 31 judges including the CJI. At present, it is functioning with 25 judges. Even after appointment of these four judges, which is likely to take two weeks, there will still be two vacancies.
Source: Times of India
The names recommended for appointment as SC judges are Allahabad HC CJ Dhananjay Chandrachud, Kerala CJ Ashok Bhushan, Madhya Pradesh CJ A M Khanwilkar and senior advocate L Nageshwar Rao.
Rao is set to join a super-ex clusive club of advocates to gain straight entry to the SC: Kuldip Singh, N Santosh Hegde, and more recently , U U Lalit and R F Nariman. LNageshwar Raowas an additional solicitor general in the UPA regime as well as under the NDA gov as well as under the NDA government before resigning last year.
Justice Chandrachud, who was one of the youngest to be appointed a judge, at the age of 40, in Bombay HC, will come to the SC with a legacy.His father Y V Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India for more than seven years from February 1978 till July 1985.With nine years of service left, the son stands a strong chance of creating history by also becoming CJI.
Only once before have both father and son made it to the SC N H Bhagwati and P N Bhagwati, who went on to become CJI. The SC has a sanctioned strength of 31 judges including the CJI. At present, it is functioning with 25 judges. Even after appointment of these four judges, which is likely to take two weeks, there will still be two vacancies.
Source: Times of India
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