New High Court judges to take oath on June 4

It may be noted that on December 19, 2016 the Madras high court collegium headed by the then Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul had recommended the names of 11 lawyers for elevation. 

Of those, the Supreme Court Collegeium had recommended nine after dropping two lawyers – AV Radhakrishnan and B Pugalendhi – on the fact that the former had crossed the maximum age limit of 55 years at the time of the recommendation. 

However, in the case of Pugalendi, the Collegium noted in its resolution that it had received certain adverse but unconfirmed inputs against Pugalendhi, and therefore, kept his elevation on hold. But in the nine names recommended, the Centre failed to approve the names of Dua Associates Partner Senthil Ramamoorthy and additional public prosecutor Emiliyas with reasons yet to be assigned. 

Prasad is an Additional Advocate General for Tamil Nadu while Saravanan is a 1994 graduate of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bangalore.