Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Appointment Of Four Judicial Officers As Judges Of Kerala High Court

The following are the Judicial Officers who have been recommended to be elevated as Judges of the High Court of Kerala:

(i)Shri K V Jayakumar

(ii) Shri Muralee Krishna S

(iii) Shri Jobin Sebastian

(iv) Shri P V Balakrishnan

The above names have been recommended by the Collegium after the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court on May 14, 2024, had recommended the elevation of four judicial officers, in consultation with his two senior-most colleagues, and with the concurrence of the Chief Minister and the Governor of the State of Kerala.

The Collegium also noted that on October 10, 2023, the collegium had recommended names of five Judicial Officers including the name of Shri P Krishna Kumar for elevation as Judge of the High Court of Kerala. All the other four judicial officers whose names were recommended earlier (Justice M B Snehalatha, Justice Johnson John, Justice G Girish, Justice C Pratheekkumar) have been appointed as judges of the Kerala High Court. The collegium thus said that the seniority of the appointed judges will be below Shri P Krishna Kumar. 

“However, nothing has been intimated by the Government to the Collegium with regard to the status of Shri P Krishna Kumar. The Collegium, therefore, resolves that the four Judicial Officers whose names are recommended above shall rank, in the appointment order, below Shri P Krishna Kumar and their inter se seniority shall be fixed in that order.”