Law Ministry Clears 5 Names Recommended By Collegium For Elevation To SC

Union Law Ministry has cleared Five names recommended by Supreme Court collegium for the appointment to Supreme Court, reports TOI

As per the report, the names of  Rajasthan HC CJ Naveen Sinha, Madras HC CJ Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Chhattisgarh HC CJ Dipak Gupta, Kerala HC CJ Mohan M Shantanagouder and Karnataka HC’s Justice S Abdul Nazeer have been cleared by the Law Ministry.

The TOI report says that the Ministry also cleared collegium's recommendations for appointment of eight chief justices for various high courts and forwarded the files to the PMO.

The Collegium has recommended Justice Hemant Gupta for Madhya Pradesh High Court; Justice Abhilasha Kumari for Tripura High Court; Justice B D Ahmed for Jammu and Kashmir High Court; Justice Pradeep Nandarajog for Rajasthan High Court; Justice Rajendra Menon for Patna High Court; Justice T Vaiphei for Hyderabad High Court; Justice H G Ramesh for Madras High Court; Justice T B Radhakrishnan for Chhattisgarh High Court,Justice P K Mohanty for Jharkhand High Court and Justice Navaniti Prasad for Kerala High Court.

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