In a collection of orders, authorities shifts 7 HC judges, 4 from Karnataka | India Information

NEW DELHI: In a collection of orders issued late Thursday, the Union regulation ministry notified the switch of seven excessive courtroom judges to completely different HCs, 4 of them from the Karnataka HC to the excessive courts of Gujarat, Orissa, Kerala and Madras.
Two judges of the Telangana excessive courtroom have been transferred to the HCs of Madras and Karnataka whereas one has been transferred from the Andhra Pradesh HC to the Karnataka HC. The ministry additionally notified the appointment of seven new everlasting judges for the Gujarat HC – it is going to now have 39 judges in opposition to a sanctioned energy of 52.
Justice Kumbhajadala Manmadha Rao of the Andhra Pradesh excessive courtroom has been transferred to the Karnataka HC whereas Justice Kasoju Surendhar, alias Okay Surender, of the Telangana HC has been transferred to the Madras excessive courtroom. Justice Perugu Sree Sudha of the Telangana HC has been transferred to the Karnataka HC.
Justices Hemant Chandangoudar, NS Sanjay Gowda, Krishnan Natarajan and Dixit Krishna Shripad of the Karnataka HC have been transferred to the HCs of Madras, Gujarat, Kerala and Orissa, respectively.
The government has appointed Liyakathussain Shamsuddin Pirzada, Ramchandra Thakurdas Vachhani, Jayesh Lakhanshibhai Odedra, Pranav Maheshbhai Raval, MC Tyagi, Dipak Mansukhlal Vyas and Utkarsh Thakorbhai Desai to be judges of the Gujarat excessive courtroom, in that order of seniority, with impact from the date they assume cost. Earlier than this, the Gujarat HC had 20 judges.
The nation’s largest excessive courtroom, Allahabad, stays on the high with no less than 72 posts of judges nonetheless vacant in opposition to a sanctioned energy of 160. The overall vacancies within the nation’s 25 excessive courts is 354 in opposition to a sanctioned energy of 1,122 judges.