7 High Court judges transferred; Justice Rajan Gupta of Punjab and Haryana High Court goes to Patna High Court

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 11

Justice Sureshwar Thakur of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Justice Thakur’s name figured in the list of seven judges whose transfers were notified by the Department of Justice on Monday.

Justice Rajan Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has been transferred to the Patna High Court.

This is the second set of transfers of high court judges notified in the past one week. On October 5, 15 judges of 11 high courts were transferred. On October 9, 13 chief justices’ appointments/transfers were notified.

These transfers were recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium led by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana last month.

Justice TS Sivagnanam has been sent from the Madras High Court to the Calcutta High Court while Justice PB Bajanthri of the Karnataka High Court and Rajasthan High Court’s Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma have both been transferred to the Patna High Court.

Justice T Amarnath Goud of the Telangana High Court has been transferred to the Tripura High Court while Justice Subhash Chand of the Allahabad High Court has been shifted to the Jharkhand High Court, it was officially announced.

The Centre also notified the appointments of three advocates and two judicial officials as new judges to the Rajasthan High Court which has been functioning with only 23 judges against a sanctioned strength of 50 judges.

Those appointed are: Farzand Ali, Sudesh Bansal, Anoop Kumar Dhand, Vinod Kumar Bharwani and Madan Gopal Vyas. Ali, Bansal and Dhand are lawyers while Bharwani and Vyas are judicial officers.

Their names were recommended for appointment by the top court’s Collegium on September 1, 2021.

The Rajasthan High Court has a sanctioned strength of 50 judges but is functioning with only 23 judges until October 1, a vacancy percentage of more than 50 per cent.