- 11 November 2022. The critical position of vacancies in the High Courts and the delay in appointment of Judges constrained three Judges Bench of this Court to pass orders on 20.04.2021 seeking to lay down broad timeline within which the appointment process should be completed. With the expanding opportunities to prominent lawyers, it is
- 28 November 2022. Learned Attorney General and Solicitor General have appeared and we expect them to play a role to advise the Government to ensure that the law of the land as laid down by this Court is observed. At the request of learned Attorney General, list on 08.12.2022.
- 28 November 2022. Two affidavits have been filed before us. The first affidavit is filed by the Registrar General of the High Court of Odisha in respect of the steps taken for providing virtual access which would obviate the need for any Benches. There are 30 district Courts functioning in the State of Odisha and the status report qua c
- 8 December 2022. IA No. 190924/2022 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 190935/2022 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON The application to appear and argue in person is allowed. The application for intervention is dismissed.
- 6 January 2023. Learned Attorney General submits that he has instructions that the Government will adhere to the timelines as provided in the judgment. It is towards that objective that he submits that out of the 104 recommendations made by the Collegiums of the High Courts pending with the Government, 44 are likely to be processed an
- 3 February 2023. Learned Attorney General submits that so far as the five recommendations made by this Court for appointment to the Supreme Court are concerned, “it is happening”. We have put to learned Attorney General as on the last date of hearing that there should be no question of the transfer of the Judges from one Court to the o
- 13 February 2023. List on 02.03.2023.
- 6 September 2023. List on 26.09.2023.
- 26 September 2023. List on 09th October, 2023.
- 9 October 2023. We have heard learned counsel for parties. The positive developments first. A large number of recommendations from High Court which were still pending with the Ministry and not forwarded to the Collegium have finally been forwarded. Thus, in the note given to us it would not be correct to say that they are pending with
- 20 October 2023. The current position is as follows: (i) Five reiterated names are pending.
- 7 November 2023. We have expressed our concern to the learned Attorney General over the lack of progress since the last date: 1) The pendency of transfer matters is an issue of great concern as it has been selectively done. Learned Attorney General submits that the issue is being taken up by him with the Government. We have emphasized
- 20 November 2023. The following aspects are pending: 1) Out of the remaining 11 names where the Judges had to be transferred from one Court to the other in which we have said the Government has little to do, 5 have been transferred but 6 transfers are still pending - 4 from Gujarat, 1 from Allahabad, 1 from Delhi.
- 20 September 2024. 1 List the Petitions in due course along with Contempt Petition (C) No 867 of 2021 and Writ Petition (C) No 895 of 2018.
- Counsel named on these orders, not a complete vakalatnama, include the advocates listed below.
Advocates — Appellants: Mr. Pai Amit, Mr. Arvind, Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, Mr. Umakant Misra, Mr. Niranjan Sahu, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Nayak, Mr. Vikas Singh, Mr. Arvind Datar, Mr. Ashok K. Parija, Mr. Shibashish Misra, Mr. Kaushik Poddar, Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj Advocates — Respondents: Mr. R. Venkararamani, Mr. Tushar Mehta, Mr. Mayank Pandey, Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Ms. Sonali Jain, Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Ms. Mansi Sood, Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, Mr. Vikas Singh, Ms. Deepeika Kalia
