Breaking: Centre Notifies Transfer Of 15 High Court Judges

The Central Government today notified the transfer of 15 High Court judges. A notification in this regard was issued today (separately for each of the transferred judges). 

Those who are being transferred are:

• Justice Jaswant Singh of Punjab & Haryana HC to Orissa HC
• Justice Sabina, presently judge of Rajasthan HC to Himachal Pradesh
• Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra, a judge of Orissa High Court to Uttarakhand HC
  
• Justice Manindra Mohan Srivastava, Chhattisgarh High Court To Rajasthan High Court
• Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah of Patna HC to Andhra Pradesh HC
• Justice Ujjal Bhuyan [PHC: Gauhati] , presently Bombay HC judge to Telangana HC
• Justice Paresh R. Upadhyay of Gujarat HC to Madras HC
• Justice M.S.S. Ramachandra Rao of Telangana HC to Punjab & Haryana HC
• Justice Arindam Sinha of Calcutta HC to Orissa HC
• Justice A.M. Badar [PHC: Bombay] , presently Kerala HC judge, to Patna HC
• Justice Yashwant Varma of Allahabad HC to Delhi HC
• Justice Vivek Agarwal [PHC: Madhya Pradesh], presently a judge of Allahabad HC to Madhya Pradesh HC
• Justice Chandra Dhari Singh of Allahabad HC to Delhi HC
• Justice Anoop Chitkara, judge of Himachal Pradesh HC to Punjab & Haryana HC
• Justice Ravi Nath Tilhari of Allahabad HC to Andhra Pradesh HC

It may be noted that last month, the Supreme Court Collegium had recommended transfer/re-transfer of the 17 Judges of High Courts.

[Update: An earlier version of the report stated that Justice T.S. Sivagnanam has been transferred from Madras HC to Calcutta HC. However, this is not correct, and therefore, the story has been updated to that extent.]

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