As many as 37 new High Court judges have been appointed by the Government late Sunday, the Law and Justice Ministry said on Monday, August 15, Independence Day 2022.
The ministry said that the appointment of the 37 new High Court judges is in continuation of the appointment of 26 High Court judges in various high courts on Friday.
With the notification of the appointments of another 11 High Court judges in the Punjab and Haryana High Court by the government in 2022, so far, 138 appointments in various High Courts of the country has been made thus surpassing its earlier record of 126 High Court appointments in 2016, it said.
In 2021, 120 judges were appointed in High Courts in addition to nine appointments in the Supreme Court. Thus, the entire appointment process in higher judiciary has been put on a fast track, the ministry stated in a release.
The new 11 appointments in the High Court of Punjab & Haryana on Sunday includes Nidhi Gupta, Sanjay Vashisth, Tribhuvan Dahiya, Namit Kumar, Harkesh Manuja, Aman Chaudhary, Naresh Singh, Harsh Bunger, Jagmohan Bansal, Deepak Manchanda and Alok Jain, Advocates as Additional Judges of that High Court for a period of two years, with effect from the date they assume charge of their respective offices.