Madras high court gets seven more judges

CHENNAI: Union ministry of law and justice on Friday notified appointment of seven new additional judges to the Madras high court.
P T Asha, Nirmal Kumar, Subramonium Prasad, N Anand Venkatesh, G K Ilanthiraiyan, Krishnan Ramasamy and C Saravanan have been appointed as additional judges of the high court for two years. They are likely to be sworn in by Chief Justice of Madras high court Indira Banerjee in the first week of June when the court resumes after the summer vacation.

Originally, the names of 11 lawyers were recommended for elevation by the collegium headed by the then Madras high court Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on December 19, 2016. Of these, nine were cleared by the apex court collegium in December 2017.

The ministry has now notified appointment of seven out of the nine, barring additional public prosecutor Emiliyas and Senthil Kumar. Their names have not been cleared so far by the ministry, without any reason being assigned.