Supreme Court collegium recommends 19 persons for appointment as judges of Madras High Court

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the names of 19 persons including 10 lawyers and 9 judicial officers, for assignment arsenic judges of the Madras High Court which present functions with a moving spot of 52 judges arsenic against its sanctioned spot of 75 including 3 serving successful different High Courts.

According to a connection issued by the apex tribunal administration, its collegium met connected Monday (May 18, 2026) to see proposals received from the High Court’s collegium connected November 4, November 21, December 7 and December 10, 2025 for elevating galore lawyers and judicial officers.

After considering the proposals successful accordance with the Memorandum of Procedure for Appointment of High Court judges, the apical tribunal cleared the names of judicial offficers P. Murugan M.D. Sumathi, S. Alli, C. Thirumagal Chadrasekar, Dharmalingam Lingeswaran and Karthikeyan Balathandayutham from the archetypal list.

The collegium further recommended the elevation of advocates N. Ramesh, G.K. Muthukumar, R. Rajesh Vivekananthan, S. Raveekumar, N. Dilip Kumar and E. Manoharan from among the names of lawyers projected by the High Court collegium connected November 21 past year.

Four much advocates — K. Govindarajan, Rajnish Pathiyil, K. Appadurai and R. Anitha — whose names were projected connected December 7 past twelvemonth and 3 judicial officers — S. Karthikeyan, B. Murugesan and N. Gunasekaran — projected connected December 10 past twelvemonth person besides been cleared by the Supreme Court collegium.

Among those recommended, Ms. Alli is serving arsenic the Registrar General of the High Court. Mr. Vivekanathan and Mr. Govindarajan were serving arsenic Deputy Solicitors General astatine the main spot of the High Court successful Chennai and its Madurai Bench respectively. Mr. Ramesh and Mr. Pathiyil were the Special Public Prosecutors for the Directorate of Enforcement.