President Kovind appoints 28 Additional Judges as Judges of Allahabad High Court

President Ram Nath Kovind appointed 28 Additional Judges of the Allahabad High Court as permanent Judges of the Allahabad High Court with effect from the date they assume charge of their office. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice issued an official notification informing of the new appointments. Usually, an Additional Juge has to serve for two years in the position before he/she is appointed as a permanent Judge based on their performance. The Allahabad High Court was operating with a total of 100 Judges despite having a sanctioned strength of 160 Judges. Being the largest High Court with a large number of cases and Judges, Allahabad Hight Court is working with a shortage of 60 Judges as of November 1, as reported by the Ministry of Law and Justice website. 

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List of Additional Judges appointed as permanent Judges by

1. Justice Prakash Padia
2. Justice Alok Mathur
3. Justice Pankaj Bhatia
4. Justice Saurabh Lavania
5. Justice Vivek Varma
6. Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh
7. Justice Piyush Agrawal
8. Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery
9. Justice Jaspreet Singh
10. Justice Rajeev Singh
11. Justice Manju Rani Chauhan
12. Justice Karunesh Singh Pawar
13. Justice Dr Yogendra Kumar Srivastava
14. Justice Manish Mathur
15. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal
16. Justice Ram Krishna Gautam
17. Justice Umesh Kumar
18. Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava
19. Justice Anil Kumar--IX
20. Justice Rajendra Kumar--IV
21. Justice Mohd. Faiz Alam Khan
22. Justice Vikas Kunvar Srivastav
23. Justice Virendra Kumar Srivastava
24. Justice Suresh Kumar Gupta
25. Justice Ghandikota Sree Devi
26. Justice Narendra Kumar Johari
27. Justice Raj Beer Singh
28. Justice Ajit Singh

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All the Judges named were appointed as Additional Judges on 22 November 2018 and their term will end on 21 November 2020 after the completion of a period of two years. 

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(With inputs from ANI & PTI)