Patna Excessive Court docket’s Chief Justice Appointed As Supreme Court docket Choose
New Delhi:
Patna Excessive Court docket Chief Justice Ok Vinod Chandran was on Monday elevated as a decide of the Supreme Court docket.
The Supreme Court docket Collegium really useful Justice Chandran’s title on January 7, and his appointment was introduced on Monday by Regulation Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal in a put up on X.
In train of the powers conferred by the Structure of India, the President, after session with Chief Justice of India, is happy to nominate Shri Justice Krishnan Vinod Chandran, Chief Justice, Patna Excessive Court docket as a Choose of the Supreme Court docket of India.
— Arjun Ram Meghwal (@arjunrammeghwal) January 13, 2025
Justice Chandran was appointed as a decide of the Kerala Excessive Court docket on November 8, 2011. He was elevated because the chief justice Patna Excessive Court docket on March 29, 2023.
As soon as he takes oath as a decide of the highest courtroom, the working power of the Supreme Court docket would rise to 33. Its sanctioned power is 34, together with the chief justice of India.
“He (Chandran) has served as a decide of the excessive courtroom for greater than 11 years and as a chief justice of an enormous excessive courtroom for greater than a 12 months. Throughout his lengthy tenure as a decide and chief justice of the excessive courtroom, Justice Chandran has acquired important expertise in numerous fields of regulation,” the collegium decision mentioned whereas recommending his title.
It additionally mentioned Justice Chandran stood at No. 13 within the mixed all-India seniority listing of excessive courtroom judges.
“When it comes to seniority of judges hailing from the Excessive Court docket of Kerala, Justice Chandran stands at serial number one. Whereas recommending his title, the collegium has considered the truth that there isn’t a illustration on the bench of the Supreme Court docket from the Excessive Court docket of Kerala. The collegium has, subsequently, unanimously really useful that Justice Ok Vinod Chandran be appointed as a decide of the Supreme Court docket of India,” the decision mentioned.
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