In order to speed up the judicial process in the Allahabad High Court, the Central Government has approved the appointment of 24 new judges. According to the notification of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the number of judges in this High Court with a capacity of 160 judges has now increased to 109, due to which the vacancies have come down from 74 to 50. These include 10 lawyers and 14 senior judicial officers who have been made judges.
Among the new judges are the names of 14 judicial officers: Dr. Ajay Kumar (II), Chavan Prakash, Divesh Chandra Samant, Prashant Mishra (first), Tarun Saxena, Registrar General Rajeev Bharti, Padam Narayan Mishra, Laxmikant Shukla, Jai Prakash Tiwari, Devendra Singh (first), Sanjeev Kumar, Vani Ranjan Aggarwal, Achal Sachdev, and Babita Rani.
At the same time, the names of the 10 lawyers who have been made judges are: Vivek Saran, Vivek Kumar Singh, Garima Prasad, Sudhanshu Chauhan, Awadhesh Kumar Chaudhary, Swaroopma Chaturvedi, Siddharth Nandan, Kunal Ravi Singh, Indrajit Shukla, and Satyaveer Singh.
Appointment of judges in these two High Courts also
In the Karnataka High Court, three advocates- Geeta Kadba Bharat Raja Shetty, Borkatte Muralidhar Pai, and Tyagaraja Narayan Ivali have been appointed additional judges for two years. Two advocates- Jia Lal Bhardwaj and Romesh Verma have been made judges in Himachal Pradesh High Court.
There are 330 posts vacant in 25 High Court of the country
The total sanctioned posts in 25 High Courts of the country are 1,122, but currently only 792 judges are working, from which 330 posts are vacant. According to sources in the Ministry of Law and Justice, many High Court Collegiums have not recommended names for more than 200 vacancies. Background checks of several names sent to the Center are underway, and some Supreme Courts are waiting for the approval of the collegium. This step will contribute significantly to reduce the burden of pending cases and accelerate the judicial process.
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