The Central Government on Friday notified appointments for judges at Madras, Calcutta, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh High Courts.
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal took to X (formerly Twitter) to notify the appointments which states:
“In exercise of the powers conferred by the Constitution of India, in consultation with Chief Justice of India, the President is pleased to appoint the following Advocates/ Judicial Officers as Judges / Additional Judges in the High Courts…”
The appointees are as follows:-
For Madras High Court, five advocates have been appointed as judges:
1. Govindrajan Krishnaswamy, Advocate
2. Rajnish Pathiyil, Advocate
3. Ramesh Natarajan, Advocate
4. GK Muthukumar, Advocate
5. Ramkrishna Rajesh Vivekananthan, Advocate
Meanwhile three advocates and seven judicial officers are appointed as additional judges of Madras High Court:
6. Raveekumar Sankarnarayanan, Advocate
7. Dilip Kumar Nagarajan, Advocate
8. Ellapan Manoharan, Advocate
9. Dr. P Murugan, Judicial Officer
10. Smt. MD Sumathi, Judicial Officer
11. Smt. S Alli, Judicial Officer
12. Smt. C Thirumagal,Judicial Officer
13. Shanmugan Karhikeyan, Judicial Officer
14.Murugasen Baluchamy, Judicial Officer
15. N Gunasekaran, Judicial Officer
For Calcutta High Court Centre has notified appointment of eight advocates as judges:
16. Aryak Dutt, Advocate
17. Atarup Banerjee, Advocate
18. Sandip Kumar De, Advocate
19. Partha Pratim Roy, Advocate
20. Sudip Deb, Advocate
21. Anuj Singh, Advocate
22. Arjun Ray Mukherjee, Advocate
23. Rishad Medora, Advocate
The Centre has also notified appointment of six advocates as judges of Karnataka High Court:
24.Raghavendra S Srivatsa, Advocate
25. Smt. Hema Kulkarni, Advocate
26. Subramanya Rangarao, Advocate
27. Vivekananda Thadagavadi Prakash, Advocate
28. Pramod Bakkeswara, Advocate
29. Shanthi Bhushan Hombe Gowda, Advocate
Centre has also notified appointment of one advocate as judge of MP High Court:
30. Amit Lahoti, Advocate
