The top court, which did not get a single judge after the retirement of then CJI Ranjan Gogoi on November 17, 2019, had nine existing vacancies when CJI Ramana took over and there were around 600 vacancies in high courts.
The Supreme Court is all set to achieve its full strength of 34 judges with the Supreme Court Collegium under whose leadership? CJI NV Raman The names of Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat High Court judge Justice Jamshed B Pardiwala have been recommended for recommendation to the apex court, sources said.
He said if the Center accepted the recommendation, Justice Pardiwala would become the CJI for more than two years.
Justice Dhulia, who will be the second judge to be elevated from the Uttarakhand High Court, is the brother of National Award-winning film director and actor Tigmanshu Dhulia and will have a tenure of a little over three years.
While Justice Pardiwala will be the fourth High Court judge from the Parsi community and the first from the minority community to grace the bench of the apex court, who has been elevated in the last five years after Justice S Abdul Nazeer.
Justice Nazir was elevated to the Supreme Court in February 2017.
With the retirement of Justice R Subhash Reddy on January 4 this year, the total strength of the judges of the apex court had gone up to 32 against the sanctioned strength of 34 and now with the new recommendation, if action is taken, the full strength in the apex will be ensured. Court will be
Justice Dhulia, who was born on August 10, 1960, hails from Madanpur, a remote village located in the Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, and joined the Bar in the Allahabad High Court in 1986.
Born on August 12, Justice Pardiwala started practicing in the Gujarat High Court in the year 1990.
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Recommendations of the CJI-led Collegium
collegium, which includes CJI Ramana and Justices UU Lalit, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud, And L Nageswara Rao took the decision in his recent deliberations of the collegium, sources said.
The CJI, who himself will step down on August 26 this year, has managed to develop a consensus in a 5-judge collegium to unanimously recommend a record 11 names since August last year.
The top court, which did not get a single judge after the retirement of then CJI Ranjan Gogoi on November 17, 2019, had nine existing vacancies when CJI Ramana took over and there were around 600 vacancies in high courts.
The collegium then in August last year ensured that nine vacancies in the Supreme Court were filled in one go and Justice BV Nagarathna, one of the three women judges, would become the first woman CJI.
HC judges also recommended
In addition, the top three judges collegium has so far recommended 180 names for appointment as judges of various high courts.
The year 2022 is going to be the second year since the inception of the top court in 1950, with three different CJIs appearing in the same number of months.
The current Chief Justice, who will step down on August 26, will be replaced by Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, who will have a tenure of a little over two months.
Will pave way for Justice Lalit’s retirement in November Justice DY Chandrachud will take over as the head of the judiciary for a period of a little more than two years.
As per records, Justice Dhulia hails from Madanpur, a remote village located in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, and his grandfather Bhairav Dutt Dhulia was a freedom fighter and had also served a jail term for participating in the ‘Quit India Movement’. .
Justice Dhulia, an alumnus of Sainik School, Lucknow, graduated from Allahabad University and did law.
He was earlier the Chief Standing Counsel in the Uttarakhand High Court and later an Additional Advocate General and was elevated as a Judge in the same High Court in November 2008.
He later became the Chief Justice of the High Court of Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh on January 10, 2021.
Justice Pardiwala did his schooling from St. Joseph’s Convent School in Valsad, his hometown in South Gujarat, and graduated from Jaypee Arts College there.
He is a fourth generation legal professional in the family of lawyers and was elected as a member of the Bar Council of Gujarat in the year 1994.
He was appointed as Standing Counsel for the Gujarat High Court in the year 2002 and held the position till the date of his elevation to the Bench on 17 February 2011.
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