The Supreme Courtroom collegium on Tuesday really useful Patna Excessive Courtroom Chief Justice Okay Vinod Chandran to be appointed as a decide of the apex court docket. The five-judge collegium led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna in a gathering held on Tuesday really useful the identify of Justice Chandran, who was appointed as a decide of the Kerala Excessive Courtroom on November 8, 2011.
Justice Chandran was elevated because the Patna Excessive Courtroom Chief Justice and has been serving the place since March 29, 2023. Given the Centre clears the advice, the Supreme Courtroom judges’ energy will rise to 33 in comparison with the sanctioned energy of 34 judges.
Supreme Courtroom decide Justice C T Ravikumar demitted workplace on January 3. “He has served as a decide of the excessive court docket for greater than 11 years and as a chief justice of a giant excessive court docket for greater than a yr. Throughout his lengthy tenure as a decide and chief justice of the excessive court docket, Justice Chandran has acquired important expertise in numerous fields of regulation,” stated the collegium decision.
The apex court docket 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 court docket judges. “Within the seniority of judges hailing from the excessive court docket of Kerala, Justice Okay Vinod Chandran stands at serial #1. Whereas recommending his identify, the collegium has considered the truth that there isn’t any illustration on the bench of the Supreme Courtroom from the Excessive Courtroom of Kerala. The collegium has, subsequently, unanimously really useful that Justice Okay Vinod Chandran be appointed as a decide of the Supreme Courtroom of India,” the decision stated.
One other decision of the collegium really useful the switch of Bombay Excessive Courtroom Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya to the Delhi Excessive Courtroom. Justice Vibhu Bakhru is at the moment serving as appearing Chief Justice of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom after Justice Manmohan was elevated to the Supreme Courtroom.
The collegium additional really useful Telangana Excessive Courtroom Chief Justice Alok Aradhe’s switch to the Bombay Excessive Courtroom. It additionally accredited the proposal to nominate further judges Justice Kardak Ete and Mridul Kumar Kalita as everlasting judges of Gauhati Excessive Courtroom.