The Supreme Court collegium on Friday recommended names of 37 additional judges for their appointment as permanent judges of the High Courts of Allahabad, Rajasthan, Kerala, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The collegium, comprising of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and the two senior-most judges after him, Justices Chelameshwar and Ranjan Gogoi, uploaded details of their recommendations on the Supreme Court website, and also forwarded them to the Centre for final approval.
The collegium noted that it had received some complaints against some of these judges, but it did not find any merit in them. Once these names are approved by the government and then by the President, these additional judges of High Courts will become permanent judges there.
These events occured on the same day an apex court bench comprising of Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said the process of appointing High Court judges needs to be done expeditiously by those entrusted with this obligation to keep the hopes of litigants alive and provide speedy justice.