NEW CHIEF JUSTICES APPOINTED TO SEVEN HIGH COURTS DISHA GUPTA LAW CRITIQUE Mon, Oct 07, 2019, at ,11:58 AM The Centre notified the appointments of chief justices of high courts of Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan, Gauhati, Himachal Pradesh, and Sikkim. Justice Ravi Shankar Jha, acting chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, has been appointed as Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Justice Jha has been appointed in place of Justice Krishna Murari, who has been appointed as the judge of the Supreme Court. Justice Ravi Shankar Jha, 58, had enrolled as a lawyer in September 1986. Before his elevation as a judge of the Madhya Pradesh high court, he had practiced on civil, revenue constitutional sides in the Madhya Pradesh high court at Jabalpur. Similarly, Justice Ajai Lamba, a judge of the Allahabad HC, has been elevated as Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court. He represented Union Public Service Commission, Central Administrative Tribunal, Chandigarh and Punjab and Haryana High Court. He also represented various Boards/Corporations/Institutions and the State of Haryana in civil and criminal matters in the High Court. He was also elevated as a Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court, on Mar 22, 2006. Further, he was transferred to Allahabad High Court and took oath on Dec 09, 2011. Justice Indrajit Mahanty, a judge of the Bombay High Court, has been appointed as Chief Justice in Rajasthan. He is the 37th Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court. He got enrolled as an advocate with Orissa State Council in 1984 and began legal practice under his father. Thereafter, he started independent practice in the field of commercial law, arbitration, taxation, civil and criminal, writs & service law before the civil court, Orissa High Court and the Supreme Court, as well as, conducted few arbitration proceedings at London. Justice S Mani Kumar, a judge of the Madras HC, has been elevated as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. He was a senior central government standing counsel from July 2004 and later became an assistant solicitor general. He was appointed as an additional judge of the Madras high court on July 31, 2006, and as a permanent judge on November 9, 2009. Similarly, Justice L N Swamy, a judge in the Karnataka HC, has been elevated as Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh HC. He was enrolled as an Advocate during the year 1987 and practiced in the High Court on Writ Petitions, Service Matters, Land Reforms, Land Revenue, and PIL. He also worked as High Court Govt. he acted as a leader from 1995 to 1999. Further, he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the High Court of Karnataka on 04-07-2007 and permanent Judge on 17-04-2009 and as The Acting Chief Justice from 17.01.2019 to 09.05.2019. Justice J K Maheshwari, a judge of the Madhya Pradesh HC, has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh HC. He has been practising in Madhya Pradesh High Court from 1985 and has been appointed as a judge of Madhya Pradesh HC in 2005. Justice A K Goswami, a judge in the Gauhati High Court, has been elevated as Chief Justice of the Sikkim HC. Meanwhile, Justices Biswanath Sommader, P V Sanjay Kumar and Vivek Agarwal of the high courts of Calcutta, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh have been posted to the high courts of Allahabad, Punjab, and Haryana and Allahabad, respectively. Recently, Justices V Ramasubramanian, Krishna Murari, S Ravindra Bhat and Hrishikesh Roy took oath as judges of the Supreme Court. Prior to their elevation, they were Chief Justices of the high courts of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana, Rajasthan, and Kerala, respectively.