Overview

• Two Himachal Pradesh advocates were appointed as judges—Jiya Lal Bhardwaj and Romesh Verma—bolstering a court operating with 11 of 17 sanctioned judges.
• The Allahabad High Court received 24 new judges with 10 advocates and 14 judicial officers named in the notification.
• The government withheld the Allahabad elevations of advocates Adnan Ahmad and Jai Krishna Upadhyay.
• Three Karnataka judicial officers—Geetha Kadaba Bharatharaja Setty, Muralidhara Pai Borkatte and Tyagaraja Narayan Inavally—were cleared as High Court judges.
• Leadership changes include Justice Soumen Sen as Meghalaya Chief Justice, Justice Sujoy Paul to head the Calcutta High Court, and Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma to lead the Rajasthan High Court after K. R. Shriram retires on September 27.