The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the name of Justice Hima Kohli, Judge, Delhi High Court as Chief Justice of Telangana High Court and Justice S. Muralidhar, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court as Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court along with other three Judges as Chief Justices of Madras High Court, Gauhati High Court and Jammu and Kashmir High Court respectively.
The other three judges are Justice Sanjib Banerjee, presently Judge of Calcutta High Court recommended as Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Justice Panjaj Mittal, Judge of Allahabad High Court as Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, Judge of Uttarakhand High Court as Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court.
Apart from this, the Collegium recommended the transfer of other nine Chief Justices and Judges of High Courts. The Collegium has recommended transfer of Chief Justice A.K. Goswami, Sikkim High Court as the Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court. The present Chief Justice J.K. Maheshwari of Andhra Pradesh High Court has been recommended for transfer to Sikkim High Court.
The Supreme Court Collegiums is headed by Chief Justice S. A. Bobde and presided by other top-four judges of the Apex Court. The four judges are Justice N. V. Ramana, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, and Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar.
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