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Supreme Court Collegium Reassigns Justice Atul Sreedharan to Allahabad High Court

The move follows a government request for reconsideration of an earlier proposal to transfer him to Chhattisgarh.

Overview

  • At a meeting on October 14 chaired by Chief Justice B R Gavai, the collegium recommended moving the Madhya Pradesh High Court judge to the Allahabad High Court.
  • The collegium’s resolution noting the revised recommendation was uploaded to the Supreme Court website today.
  • In August, the collegium had proposed transferring Justice Sreedharan to the Chhattisgarh High Court before revising that view on reconsideration.
  • Justice Sreedharan was shifted from Madhya Pradesh to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in April 2023 at his request and returned to Madhya Pradesh in March 2025.
  • He was appointed an additional judge in April 2016 and became a permanent judge in March 2018 after prior practice in Delhi and Indore.