The Supreme Court Collegium has decided to keep up with decision to recommend the transfer three High Court judges.
The Collegium has also rejected their individual requests for continuing at their parent High Court or be transferred to neighbouring States of their choice.
The Collegium,in its resolutions today, said it found no merit in the requests of the three judges.
The following are the three judges who have been recommended for transfer.
– Justice Manoj Bajaj of the Punjab & Haryana High Court to Allahabad High Court;
– Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh of the Allahabad High Court to Kerala High Court;
– Justice Gaurang Kanth of the Delhi High Court to Calcutta High Court.
The Collegium on July 5,had proposed the three judges’ transfers for ‘better administration of justice’. The same was reiterated today.
In identically-worded resolutions, the Collegium detailed its procedure in making the recommendations, which included inputs from consultee top court judges of the respective parent High Courts, as well as concurrence and no-objection of the Chief Justices of the High Courts concerned.
Justice Bajaj had sought to continue at the High Court currently posted in, while Justice Singh preferred a transfer to States close to Uttar Pradesh like Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh.
Justice Kanth sought a transfer to the High Courts of Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan, or to some other neighbouring State.
These requests were rejected by the Collegium.