Overview

• Twenty-four appointments to the Allahabad High Court were notified under Article 217, comprising 10 advocates and 14 judicial officers, effective upon assumption of charge.
• The advocates appointed to Allahabad include Vivek Saran, Vivek Kumar Singh, Garima Prashad, Sudhanshu Chauhan, Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary, Swarupama Chaturvedi, Siddharth Nandan, Kunal Ravi Singh, Indrajeet Shukla and Satya Veer Singh.
• The government has not cleared two collegium-recommended advocates for Allahabad—Adnan Ahmad and Jai Krishna Upadhyay.
• Justice Soumen Sen of the Calcutta High Court was appointed Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court following a collegium resolution earlier this month.
• Two advocates—Jiya Lal Bhardwaj and Romesh Verma—were appointed judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, while the Centre also announced leadership changes with Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma to head the Rajasthan High Court and Justice Sujoy Paul to lead the Calcutta High Court.