Centre Notifies Appointment Of Advocates, Judicial Officers As Judges Of Various High Courts

The Ministry of Law and Justice has notified the appointment of Advocates and Judicial Officers to be the Judges/Additional judges of four different High Courts.

The Law Minister, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, announced this development on X yesterday. His tweet read, "In exercise of the powers conferred by the Constitution of India, in consultation with Chief Justice of India, the President is pleased to appoint the following Advocates/ Judicial Officersas Judges / Additional Judges in the High Courts:-"

The appointments are as follows:

Madras High Court:

Advocates as Judges-

1. Govindarajan Krishnaswamy,

2. Rajnish Pathiyil,

3. Ramesh Natarajan,

4. G.K. Muthukumaar,

5. Ramakrishnan Rajesh Vivekananthan

Advocates as Additional Judges-

1. Raveekumar Sankaranarayanan,

2. Dilip Kumar Nagarajan and

3. Ellappan Manoharan

Judicial Officers as Additional Judges-

1. Dr. P. Murugan,

2. Smt. M. D. Sumathi,

3. Smt. S. Alli,

4. Smt. C. Thirumagal,

5. Shanmugam Karthikeyan,

6. Murugesan Baluchamy and

7. N. Gunasekaran

Calcutta High Court:

Advocates as Additional Judges-

1. Aryak Dutt,

2. Atarup Banerjee,

3. Sandip Kumar De,

4. Partha Pratim Roy,

5. Sudip Deb,

6. Anuj Singh,

7. Arjun Ray Mukherjee and

8. Rishad Medora

Karnataka High Court:

Advocates as Additional Judges-

1. Raghavendra Seetharam Srivatsa,

2. Smt. Hema Kulkarni,

3. Subramanya Rangarao,

4. Vivekananda Thadagavadi Prakash,

5. Pramod Bakkeswara and

6. Shanthi Bhushan Hombe Gowda

Madhya Pradesh High Court:

Advocate as Additional Judge-

1. Amit Lahoti