Centre Govt Notifies Elevation Of Advocates as Additional Judges To Madras And Allahabad High Courts

The Central Government on Thursday notified the elevation of four advocates as Additional Judges of Allahabad High Court and Madras High Court.

In its meeting on January 17, 2023, the Supreme Court Collegium gave its approval to the proposal to elevate these four advocates to the positions of Additional Judges in the Allahabad and Madras High Courts respectively.

The names of the recommendees for the elevation as judges in the Allahabad High Court are;

1. Advocate Prashant Kumar
2. Advocate Manjive Shukla
3. Advocate Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal.

And Advocate Venkatachari Lakshminarayanan elevated as the additional judge for Madras High Court.

Kiren Rijiju, Minister of Law and Justice, wished the newly appointed judges, stating,

“As per relevant provisions under the Constitution of India, the following Advocates have been appointed as Additional Judges of Allahabad High Court and Madras High Court. I extend my best wishes to all of them.”

During a recent Parliament session, Kiren Rijiju stated that the government is committed to filling vacant positions expeditiously and in a timely manner.

Additionally, he informed the Parliament that, despite the fact that the process of filling vacancies in the High Courts is ongoing, integrated, and collaborative and requires the consultation and approval of numerous constitutional authorities, new openings continue to occur as a result of judge retirement, resignation, or elevation.

Rijiju went on to say that in order to increase a High Court’s judge strength, both the Chief Justice of that High Court and the State Government must agree, as the Chief Justice of that High Court is in charge of running the court on a daily basis and the State Government is responsible for funding infrastructure, judge salaries, and other things.

Judges of the High Court now have a sanctioned strength of 1108, up from 906 in 2014. (2022).