On a day it brought into force a law to appoint members to the higher judiciary, Government on Monday appointed 22 Additional Judges and transferred the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court based on recommendations of the collegium which the new legislation seeks to replace. Justice Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela, Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court was transferred as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court.
A law Ministry statement said additional judges have been appointed to the Kerala High Court including Shaji Paul Chaly, Anu Sivaraman, Raja Vijayaraghavan Valsala, Bhaskaran Pillai Sudheendra Kumar, Keloth Puthenpura Jyothindranath, Mary Joseph and Sunil Thomas.
Five additional judges in the Allahabad High Court were also elevated as permanent judges. Those elevated include Justices Karuna Nand Bajpayee, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Anjani Kumar Mishra, Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Suneet Kumar. Ramendra Jain was appointed as Additional Judge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court while Ratnaker Bhengra was made Additional Judge in the Jharkhand High Court.
