Supreme Court Collegium Recommends 14 Advocates For Elevation As Judges Of Bombay High Court

As per the resolution, a total of 14 advocates, including 1 woman have been recommended.

Following are the advocates:

Nandesh Shankarrao Deshpande,

Amit Satyavan Jamsandekar,

Ashish Sahadev Chavan,

Vaishali Nimbajirao Patil-Jadhav,

Abasaheb Dharmaji Shinde,

Farhan Parvez Dubash,

Siddheshwar Sundarrao Thombre,

Mehroz Ashraf Khan Pathan,

Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale,

Sandesh Dadasaheb Patil,

Shreeram Vinayak Shirsat,

Hiten Shamrao Venegavkar,

Rajnish Ratnakar Vyas, and

Raj Damodar Wakode.

Among these advocates, Patil and Shirsat are the special prosecutors for the Central Government and represented the prime agencies like CBI, NIA and ED while Venegavkar is the Chief Public Prosecutor of Maharashtra.

Advocate Dubash is presently the secretary of the Bombay Bar Association.

If the Central Government clears all these 14 names, the strength of the HC would then stand to 83 as against the sanctioned strength of 94.