New Delhi: Four Chief Justices and six Justices of various High Courts of the country have been transferred on Thursday. The Union Ministry of Law and Justice gave this information on Thursday. According to the Law Ministry, Chief Justices of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim have been transferred. Judges from Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Madras, Calcutta, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand have also been transferred.
According to the Ministry, Chief Justice of Telangana High Court Raghavendra Singh Chouhan has been transferred to Uttarakhand High Court. While Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari has been sent to Sikkim. Odisha Chief Justice Mohammad Rafique has been transferred to Madhya Pradesh while Sikkim Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami has been transferred as a judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
These judges were also transferred
Apart from this, Madhya Pradesh High Court Judge Sanjay Yadav has been transferred to Allahabad High Court while Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Judge Rajesh Bindal has been transferred to Calcutta High Court. Madras High Court Judge Vineet Kothari has been transferred to Gujarat High Court. Calcutta High Court Justice Joymalya Bagchi has been transferred to Andhra Pradesh High Court. Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Judge Satish Chandra Sharma has been transferred to the Karnataka High Court. Ravi Vijaykumar Malimath from Uttarakhand has been transferred to Himachal Pradesh.
On the other hand, Justice S Muralidhan of Punjab and Haryana has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Odisha High Court while Judge Hima Kohli of Delhi High Court has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Telangana High Court. Simultaneously, Calcutta High Court Judge Sanjeeb Banerjee has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court while Allahabad High Court Judge Pankaj Mittal has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The Collegium of the Supreme Court had recently recommended to the Government to transfer four Chief Justices of the High Courts, including the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Maheshwari, to the Sikkim High Court. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy had a few weeks ago complained to the Chief Justice of India about the state’s top judiciary.
In an unprecedented move, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobade on October 6 asking that the State High Court be used to destabilize and overthrow his democratically elected government. Has been.
