The Central government has today notified the elevation of Justice PB Varale of the Bombay High Court as the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court.
The elevation of Justice PB Varale was recommended by the Supreme Court collegium which was headed by the Chief Justice of India UU Lalit on September 30.
Along with Justice Varale, three senior judges of the Bombay High Court were recommended to be elevated as chief justices of other high courts or as Supreme Court judge.
Justice Varale, who is the senior-most judge at Bombay High Court, was enrolled as an advocate in August 1985 and had the opportunity to have practised under advocate SN Loya during his initial years.
Justice PB Varale has also served as a lecturer at Ambedkar Law College in Aurangabad till 1992.
On July 18, 2008, he was appointed a judge of the Bombay High Court.
Justice Varale will be the fourth judge from Bombay High Court to become the Chief Justice in Karnataka.
The other three were former judges Justices SP Bharucha (January 1991-June 1992) and ML Pendse (July 1995-March 1996) and now Supreme Court judge Justice AS Oka (May 2019-August 2021)