The Ministry of Law and Justice has notified the appointment of 24 persons to be the Judges of the Allahabad High Court with effect from the date they assume charge of their respective offices.

Following have been appointed as the Judges of Allahabad High Court –

Advocates:

1. Vivek Saran

2. Vivek Kumar Singh

3. Garima Prashad (Senior Advocate)

4. SudhanshuChauhan

5. Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary (Senior Advocate)

6. Swarupama Chaturvedi (Senior Advocate)

7. Siddharth Nandan

8. Kunal Ravi Singh

9. Indrajeet Shukla

10. SatyaVeer Singh

Judicial Officers:

11. Dr. Ajay Kumar-II

12. Chawan Prakash

13. Divesh Chandra Samant

14. Prashant Mishra-I

15. Tarun Saxena

16. Rajeev Bharti

17. Padam Narain Mishra

18. Lakshmi Kant Shukla

19. Jai Prakash Tiwari

20. Devendra Singh-I

21. Sanjiv Kumar

22. Vani Ranjan Agrawal

23. Achal Sachdev

24. Babita Rani

The following have been appointed as the Judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court –

1. Advocate Jiya Lal Bhardwaj

2. Advocate Romesh Verma

The following has been appointed as the Permanent Judge of the Karnataka High Court –

1. Kurubarahalli Venkataramareddy Aravind, Additional Judge

The following have been appointed as the Additional Judges of the Karnataka High Court –

1. Geetha Kadaba Bharatharaja Setty, Judicial Officer

2. Borkatte Muralidhara Pai, Judicial Officer

3. Tyagaraja Narayan Inavally, Judicial Officer

Calcutta High Court:

Justice Sujoy Paul, Judge of the Calcutta High Court has been appointed as the Acting Chief Justice (ACJ) of the Calcutta High Court consequent upon appointment of Justice Soumen Sen, Judge of the Calcutta High Court as Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court.

Rajasthan High Court:

Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, Judge of the Rajasthan High Court has been appointed as the Acting Chief Justice (ACJ) of the Rajasthan High Court consequent upon retirement of Justice Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram on September 27, 2025.

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Swasti Chaturvedi

Assistant Editor

Swasti Chaturvedi is an Assistant Editor at Verdictum, specializing in meticulously covering Supreme Court and High Court Judgments. She holds a postgraduate degree - LL.M. in Business Law and B.B.A. LL.B. from the Department of Law, PIMR, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. She brings over two years of expertise in legal writing and editing to her role. Prior to Verdictum, she worked as a Legal Analyst in the Corporate Sector.