After a year, HC collegium again sends names for Judges to SC

  

Functioning at just half its sanctioned strength for almost a year, the High Court of Delhi has set in motion the process to get more judges. The news agency has learnt that the HC Collegium has recommended 8 names from the subordinate judiciary to the Apex Court for elevation after a long-drawn deliberation over several names.

The latest recommendations have been made nearly a year after the Supreme Court returned the 6 names that the HC sent last year. The Supreme Court had declined to appoint the 6 district Judges to the HC & returned the names for “reconsideration” on various grounds, including that some of the senior Judges had been bypassed.

Since then the process to shortlist judges from the district judiciary, also commonly known as the “service quota”, has been under way with the collegium examining the candidates in the zone of consideration for elevation to the higher post. It has now finalised eight names for clearance by the Supreme Court & then by the Central government. These are Poonam Bamba, Yashwant Kumar, Neena Bansal Krishna. Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Anoop L Mendiratta, Rajiv Mehra, Swaran Kanta Sharma & Sudhir Kumar Jain, with all except Mehra, being at the level of the District Judge.

According to sources, the collegium also considered the names of Girish Kathpalia, Dharmesh Sharma & Deepak Jagotra, among others, but didn’t propose them after “comprehensive evaluation”.

As a matter of practice, names from the service quota get cleared swiftly by both the Supreme Court & the Central Govt while names from the bar are subjected to deeper scrutiny.

 

The news agency reported last year on how the HC’s recommendations last year ran into rough weather because of the Centre’s objections not only about bypassing seniority norms, but also adverse IB reports. There was also concerns that the seniormost judges in service at the time were ignored according to representations sent to the Centre & the Supreme Court judges by a senior judicial officer who had been overlooked for elevation.

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