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Outgoing Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai placed successful the nationalist domain the names and societal details of candidates approved by his Collegium, with women arsenic a people outnumbering those from Other Backward Classes, Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes.
Of a full 129 names considered for High Court appointments since May 14, erstwhile Chief Justice Gavai took implicit arsenic apical judge, the Collegium approved 93 names. The candidates hailed from some the little judiciary and the Bar.
Of these, women were 15 portion OBC/BC candidates were 11, names from Scheduled Caste communities were 10, minorities 13 and those related to judges were five.
Four of the women candidates belonged to number communities portion 1 hailed from a Scheduled Caste community.
Chief Justice Gavai, who is retiring connected November 23, has continued this contented of transparency begun by his predecessor Justice Sanjiv Khanna successful May 2025.
In May, the Supreme Court had released the full details of 221 names approved by the Supreme Court Collegiums headed by erstwhile CJIs, Justices (retired) D.Y. Chandrachud and Khanna.
Those figures had shown that lone fractional of the names recommended by the State governments and High Court Collegiums were approved by the Supreme Court Collegium aft intensive vetting and inheritance checks.
A full of 303 names were recommended during Justice Chandrachud’s two-year tenure arsenic apical justice from November 9, 2022 to November 10, 2024. The Chandrachud Collegium had approved a small implicit half, 170 names.
While a twelve of these names which passed muster were related to sitting oregon erstwhile Supreme Court oregon High Court judges, the fig of names drawn from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Most Backward and Backward communities were successful azygous digits, seven, 5 and seven, respectively.
Twenty-one candidates approved by the Chandrachud Collegium had belonged to the Other Backward Communities (OBC), women numbered 28 and 23 candidates were drawn from the minorities.
From November 10, 2024, with Justice Khanna helming the Collegium, it had received 103 names of which 51 were approved, again a small implicit half. Among these Collegium approved candidates, lone 2 had relatives successful the judiciary.
Seventeen names approved by erstwhile Collegiums were appointed arsenic High Court judges during Chief Justice Gavai’s tenure arsenic apical judge. Of this, 1 was a pistillate advocator from a number community.
However, again, the fig of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates approved for High Court appointments had remained successful the azygous digits, 1 and two, respectively.
