New Delhi: The Supreme Court collegium on Tuesday recommended the appointment of 16 additional permanent judges to the Allahabad High Court and deferred the recommendation of four additional judges.
The three-member collegium headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said that it has considered the views of consultee colleagues (top court judges), the report of Judgement Evaluation Committee, views of the state government and observation of Department of Justice.
The collegium, also comprising Justices S A Bobde and N V Ramana, said there were certain unconfirmed inputs touching upon conduct/behaviour of some of the recommendees.
"In our view, the same deserves to be ignored as we do not find any substance therein," the collegium said about such certain unconfirmed inputs.
The names of the 16 Permanent Judges are: Justices Rajiv Joshi, Salil Kumar Rai, Jayant Banerji, Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Saral Srivastava, Jahangir Jamshed Munir, Rajiv Gupta, Siddharth, Ajit Kumar, Rajnish Kumar, Abdul Moin, Dinesh Kumar Singh, Rajeev Misra, Vivek Kumar Singh, Chandra Dhari Singh and Ajay Bhanot.