The Supreme Court Collegium recommended appointment of new Chief Justices to six High Courts, including transfer of Telangana HC CJ Satish Chandra Sharma to Delhi HC which had been without a CJ since March 12, and Gujarat HC's Justice Rashmin M Chhaya as CJ of Gauhati HC.
Justice Chhaya, 61, who is likely to become CJI of Gauhati HC, was appointed as an additional judge of Gujarat HC on February 17, 2011.
The Collegium comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices U U Lalit and A M Khanwilkar also finalised names of five judges of various HCs for appointment as CJs after intense debate for close to two weeks and recommended the Centre to appoint them.
As per the recommendation, Delhi HC's acting CJ Vipin Sanghi would become CJ of Uttarakhand HC, Bombay HC's Justice Amjad A Sayed would be the CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC; Bombay HC's Justice S S Shinde as CJ of Rajasthan HC; Justice Chhaya as CJ of Gauhati HC and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan (whose parent HC is Gauhati) as CJ of Telangana HC.
Justice Sharma, 60, was appointed as an additional judge of Madhya Pradesh HC on January 18, 2008, and transferred on January 4, 2021 to Karnataka HC, where he became acting CJ on August 31 last year. He was appointed CJ of Telangana on October 11 last year.
Delhi HC's sixty-year-old Justice Sanghi, son of renowned lawyer G L Sanghi, was appointed additional judge of Delhi HC on May 29, 2006 and became its acting CJ on March 13 this year. Sixty-one-year-old Justice Syed of Bombay HC, at present the most senior judge after CJ Dipanakar Datta in Bombay HC, was appointed as a judge on April 11, 2007.
Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, 58 and recommended to head the Telangana HC, was appointed as an additional judge of Gauhati HC on October 17, 2011. He was transferred to Bombay HC on October 3, 2019 and from there to Telangana HC on October 22, 2021.
