NEW DELHI, Sept 17:
The Supreme Court collegium headed by CJI N V Ramana is learnt to have recommended eight names of Judges, including acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Justice Rajesh Bindal, for their elevation as Chief Justices of different High Courts.
Besides, the marathon collegium meetings on Thursday and Friday have led to recommendations of transfer of five chief justices, including that of Tripura High Court Chief Justice Akil Kureshi, and 28 other high courts judges, reliable sources said.
Justice Bindal of Calcutta High Court has been in news recently due to his administrative and judicial decisions in matters related to political stand-off between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.
Justice Kureshi, one of the senior-most High Court judges in the country, was originally elevated as a Judge in the Gujarat High Court and has been in news due to his non-elevation as a Judge of the Apex Court.
The sources said the three-member collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana, has decided to recommend names of judges for elevation as Chief Justices of the High Courts of Allahabad, Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telengana, Meghalaya, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
They said the three-member collegium, dealing with appointment in High Courts, included Justices U U Lalit and A M Khanwilkar and it has recommended transfer of Justice Bindal as the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.
They said the collegium has recommended that Justice Kureshi be transferred to the Rajasthan High Court.
The collegium decisions, containing the names and details of the Judges, are yet to be uploaded on the Apex Court’s website, the source said.
The sources said besides Justice Kureshi, the collegium has recommended transfer of chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court Justice Arup Kumar Goswami to the Chhattisgarh High Court, chief justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Mohd Rafiq to the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
They said the collegium has recommended transfer of chief justice of Rajasthan High Court Justice Indrajit Mahanty to the Tripura High Court and Meghalaya High Court chief justice Justice Biswanath Somadder to the Sikkim High Court.
Besides Justice Bindal, the Collegium has recommended names of Justices Prakash Srivastava, Prashant Kumar Mishra, Ritu Raj Awasthi, Satish Chandra Sharma, Ranjit V More, Aravind Kumar and R V Malimath for appointing them as chief justices of different high courts across the country, the sources said.
They said names of Justices Prakash Srivastava, Prashant Kumar Mishra and Ritu Raj Awasthi have been recommended for appointment as chief justices of high courts of Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Similarly, names of Justices Satish Chandra Sharma, Ranjit V More, Aravind Kumar and R V Malimath have been recommended for appointing them as chief justices of high courts of Telangana, Meghalaya, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, they said. (PTI)
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