9 additional judges at MHC made permanent

The Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde in a meeting held on February 12, approved the appointment of Justices PT Asha, M Nirmal Kumar, Subramonium Prasad, N Anand Venkatesh, GK Ilanthiraiyan, Krishnan Ramasamy, C Saravanan, B Pugalendhi and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy

Seven of these judges, Justices PT Asha, M Nirmal Kumar, Subramonium Prasad, N Anand Venkatesh, GK Ilanthiraiyan, Krishnan Ramaswamy and C Saravanan were appointed as additional judges in June 2018.

Justice Pugalendhi was appointed as an additional judge for a two-year term in November 2018. Justice Ramamoorthy, a former partner at Dua Associates, was appointed in February 2019.

The collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, in a meeting on Wednesday also approved the proposal for appointment of Justice Rahul Chaturvedi, the Additional Judge of the Allahabad High Court, as the Permanent Judge.

Besides CJI Bobde, Justices N V Ramana, Arun Mishra, RF Nariman and R Banumathi are part of the new five-judge Collegium.