Centre Notifies Appointment Of 9 Additional Judges To Bombay High Court

The Central Government today notified the appointment of 9 Additional Judges to Bombay High Court.

The names (all lawyers) proposed for elevation are :

1. Kishore Chandrakant Sant,

2. Valmiki Menezes SA,

3. Kamal Rashmi Khata,

4. Sharmila Uttamrao Deshmukh,

5. Arun Ramnath Pednekar,

6. Sandeep Vishnupant Marne,

7. Gauri Vinod Godse,

8. Rajesh Shantaram Patil, and

9. Arif Saleh Doctor.

It may be noted that on February 16, the Supreme court collegium had recommended the appointment of ten advocates as judges of the Bombay High Court. Barring the name of Advocate Somasekhar Sundaresan, all the names have been accepted by the President of India