SC Collegium Approves Names of Nine Judicial Officers, 10 Advocates as Judges of Madras HC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court bench approved the proposal to appoint nine judicial officers and 10 lawyers as judges in the Madras High Court. The bench, chaired by Chief Justice Surya Kant, approved the names to be appointed in the meeting held on May 18.
The judicial officers whose names were approved are Dr P Murugan, MD Sumathi, S Alli, C Thirumagal Chandrasekar, Dharmalingam Lingeswaran, Karthikeyan Balathandayutham, Shanmugam Karthikeyan, Baluchamy Murugesan and N Gunasekaran.
The advocates whose names have been confirmed include Natarajan Ramesh, GK Muthukumaar, Ramakrishnan Rajesh Vivekananthan, Sankaranarayanan Raveekumar, Nagarajan Dilip Kumar, Ellappan Manoharan, Krishnaswamy Govindarajan, Rajnish Pathiyil, K Appadurai and Ramasamy Anitha.
In another decision, the bench approved the proposal to appoint six additional judges as permanent judges of the Bombay High Court.
The bench approved the names of Justices Nivedita Prakash Mehta, Prafulla Surendrakumar Khubalkar, Ashwin Damodar Bhobe, Rohit Wasudeo Joshi, Advait Mahendra Sethna and Pravin Sheshrao Patil.
