NEW DELHI: In a sequence of orders issued late Thursday, the Union regulation ministry notified the switch of seven excessive court docket judges to totally different HCs, 4 of them from the Karnataka HC to the excessive courts of Gujarat, Orissa, Kerala and Madras.Two judges of the Telangana excessive court docket have been transferred to the HCs of Madras and Karnataka whereas one has been transferred from the Andhra Pradesh HC to the Karnataka HC. The ministry additionally notified the appointment of seven new everlasting judges for the Gujarat HC – it is going to now have 39 judges towards a sanctioned power of 52.Justice Kumbhajadala Manmadha Rao of the Andhra Pradesh excessive court docket has been transferred to the Karnataka HC whereas Justice Kasoju Surendhar, alias Ok Surender, of the Telangana HC has been transferred to the Madras excessive court docket. Justice Perugu Sree Sudha of the Telangana HC has been transferred to the Karnataka HC.Justices Hemant Chandangoudar, NS Sanjay Gowda, Krishnan Natarajan and Dixit Krishna Shripad of the Karnataka HC have been transferred to the HCs of Madras, Gujarat, Kerala and Orissa, respectively.The govt. has appointed Liyakathussain Shamsuddin Pirzada, Ramchandra Thakurdas Vachhani, Jayesh Lakhanshibhai Odedra, Pranav Maheshbhai Raval, MC Tyagi, Dipak Mansukhlal Vyas and Utkarsh Thakorbhai Desai to be judges of the Gujarat excessive court docket, in that order of seniority, with impact from the date they assume cost. Earlier than this, the Gujarat HC had 20 judges.The nation’s largest excessive court docket, Allahabad, stays on the high with at the very least 72 posts of judges nonetheless vacant towards a sanctioned power of 160. The overall vacancies within the nation’s 25 excessive courts is 354 towards a sanctioned power of 1,122 judges.
