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The Supreme Courtroom Collegium on Tuesday really helpful elevation of Patna Excessive Courtroom Chief Justice Okay Vinod Chandran as a Choose of the highest courtroom.
A press release by the five-member Collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and comprising Justices B R Gavai, Surya Kant, Hrishikesh Roy and Abhay Oka, stated that it had deliberated on the names of Chief Justices and senior Puisne Judges of the Excessive Courts eligible for appointment to the Supreme Courtroom.
Justice Chandran, it stated, was appointed as a Choose of the Excessive Courtroom of Kerala on November 8, 2011 and was elevated because the Chief Justice of the Patna Excessive Courtroom on March 29, 2023.
“He (Justice Chandran) has served as a Choose of the Excessive Courtroom for greater than 11 years and as a Chief Justice of a giant Excessive Courtroom for greater than a yr,” the Collegium stated.
“Throughout his lengthy tenure as a Choose and Chief Justice of the Excessive Courtroom, Justice Chandran has acquired important expertise in numerous fields of legislation,” the assertion stated. The assertion identified that Justice Chandran stands at serial quantity 13 within the mixed all-India seniority of Excessive Courtroom judges and at serial #1 Within the seniority of judges hailing from the Excessive Courtroom of Kerala.
The Collegium stated that “whereas recommending his title” it “has considered the truth that there isn’t a illustration on the Bench of the Supreme Courtroom from the Excessive Courtroom of Kerala.”
Justice C T Ravikumar who was from the Excessive Courtroom of Kerala retired on January 5, 2025. The Supreme Courtroom, which has a sanctioned power of 34, is at present working with 32 judges.
The Collegium additionally really helpful the switch of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, at present the Chief Justice of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom, as Chief Justice of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom. Justice Upadhyaya, whose father or mother Excessive Courtroom is the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom, has a tenure as HC choose until 2030, even when not elevated to the Supreme Courtroom.
The Collegium additionally really helpful the switch of Justice Alok Aradhe, Chief Justice of the Telangana Excessive Courtroom, as Chief Justice of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom.
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