INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Working past midnight, the Supreme Court's three-member collegium headed by CJI DY Chandrachud recommended the names of seven
judges to the Centre on Thursday for their appointment as chief justices of high courts - among them a judge of the Allahabad HC who on
appointment would be the country's lone woman CJ.The collegium of CJI Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sanjiv Khanna
recommended the appointment of Justice Sunita Agarwal as chief justice of Gujarat, the post that fell vacant on the retirement of Justice
Sonia J Gokani.Read AlsoCollegium backs Telangana, Kerala CJs for SC leg-upNEW DELHI: The SC collegium on Wednesday unanimously recommended
the CJs of Telangana HC, Ujjal Bhuyan, and Kerala HC, S Venkatanarayana Bhatti, as judges of the top court, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra
The two are 31st and 50th, respectively, on the all-India seniority list of HC judges
TheOrissa HC likely to get new CJThe Supreme Court collegium has recommended the name of Justice Subashis Talapatra as the new chief justice
Currently, Justice Talapatra is serving as the senior-most judge of the Orissa high court
Justice Talapatra was elevated as a judge of the Gauhati high court onSC Collegium recommends Justice Thakur as CJ of AP HCThe Supreme Court
collegium has recommended Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur, a judge of Bombay high court, be appointed Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh high
court.Delhi HC's Justice Siddharth Mridul has been recommended for appointment as CJ of Manipur HC
This was recommended in supersession of the collegium's February 9 decision for appointment of Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur, which has not
been acted upon till date by the Centre.The collegium resolution, uploaded early Thursday on the SC website, said, "Agarwal, appointed as a
Judge of Allahabad HC on November 21, 2011, is now the senior-most puisne Judge in her parent HC
She has been functioning there since her elevation and has acquired experience of more than 11 years in dispensing justice in the largest HC
She would be the only woman Chief Justice of a HC as presently there is no woman among the CJs of the HCs."The collegium also recommended
the appointment of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, another judge of Allahabad HC, as the CJ of Bombay HC
The post fell vacant after the recent retirement of Justice Ramesh D Dhanuka
Justice Upadhyaya was appointed as a HC judge on November 21, 2011, the same day as Justice Agarwal.It also recommended the appointment of
Justice Alok Aradhe (parent HC Madhya Pradesh and currently functioning as a judge of Karnataka HC) as CJ of Telangana
But Justice Aradhe's appointment would be consequent to the elevation of present CJ Ujjal Bhuyan as a judge of the SC, the recommendation
for which was sent to the Centre by a five-member collegium on Wednesday.
