New Delhi: A day after the Supreme Court of India sought the status of appointment of judges approved by the Supreme Court collegium, the central government on Saturday notified the appointment of chief justices to eight high courts which were pending with it for over two months.
Who are the judges appointed as the chief justices?
The government of India notified the appointment of acting Chief Justice Manmohan as the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. Justice Rajiv Shakder has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court, Justice Suresh Kumar Kait has been appointed as Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Justice Prasana Mukjerji has been sent to the Meghalaya High Court as the chief Justice, Justice Nitin Jamdar of the Bombay High Court has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, Justise Tashi Rabstan has been made the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, justice SK Rajendran has ben sent to the Madras High Court as the chief justice while Justice Ramachandran Rao has been sent to the Jharkhand High Court as its chief justice.
Apex court on Friday expressed concern at government sitting on recommendations by the collegium
The Supreme court on Friday, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation on appointment of judges, had expressed concern at government sitting on recommendation cleared by it two months back.
One of the petitions on appointment of judges is by the Jharkhand government which had questioned the government of India’s inaction in appointing Justice Ramachandan Rao as the Jharkhand Chief Justice.
Government could not just sit over recommendations made and reiterated. Apex court said
A three-judge bench led by the Chief Justice of India had said that the Supreme Court collegium was not a search committee and the government could not just sit over the recommendations made and reiterated by it.
The bench had also told the government that it should not just dig out skeletons from the cupboards of the persons whose names have been recommended by the Supreme Court collegium.
As per rules of appointment of judges, the Supreme Court collegium is the apex body to recommend the names of persons to be appointed as judges. After the collegium makes recommendations, it goes to the government for notification of the appointments.
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