The Supreme Court Collegium on Monday recommended to the government elevation of five judicial officers as Judges of Karnataka High Court.
The officers are -- Shivashankar Amarannavar, M Ganeshaiah Uma, Vedavyasachar Srishananda, Hanchate Sanjeevkumar and Padmaraj Nemachandra Desai.
In a series of decisions, the Collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, also approved the proposal for appointment of three Additional Judges of the Calcutta High Court -- Justices Bibek Chaudhuri, Subhasis Dasgupta, and Suvra Ghosh -- as Permanent Judges of the high court.
The Collegium also put a stamp of approval on the proposal for elevation of the three advocates as Judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court -- Boppudi Krishna Mohan, K Suresh Reddy and K Lalitha Kumari.
Besides, it approved the proposal for elevation of advocate B Vijaysen Reddy as a Judge of the Telangana High Court.
Apart from Chief Justice Bobde, Justices NV Ramana, Arun Mishra, RF Nariman and R Banumathi are part of the new 5-judge Collegium.
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