Chandigarh: A total of 10 additional judges from the Punjab High Court and Haryana took the oath of office on Monday as a permanent judge of the High Court.
HC Judge who has become a permanent judge is justice Suvir Sehgal, Justice ALKA SARIN, Justice Singh Puri, Justice Ashok Kumar Verma, Justice Meenakshi I Mehta, Justice Karamjit Singh, Puri Justice, and Justice Rajesh Bhardwaj.
However, there was no clarity until Monday night about Justice Girish Agnihotri who futures as an additional judge ended on Monday.
The source in the Administration of the High Court confirmed that if there was no clarification regarding the extension of the term of office justice Agnihotri received before 12 in the morning, he would stop being a judge of the High Court.
However, there was no confirmation about the extension to Judge Agnihotri accepted to archiving this report.
On October 7, the Supreme Court Collegium has approved a proposal for the appointment of these 10 additional judges as a permanent judge in the Punjab High Court and Haryana.
The name Justice Agnihotri, who was appointed as an additional HC judge on October 26, 2019 for two years, however, was surprisingly lost from the list.
Sureshwar Thakur justice, which has been transferred from the Himachal High Court to the Punjab High Court and Haryana also took an oath of office on Monday.
10 additional judges take an oath as a HC judge
