# SC Collegium recommends seven advocates as MP HC judges 2026-10-26T20:06:25+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 3 independent outlets The Supreme Court Collegium on Monday, 26 October 2026, recommended the appointment of seven advocates as judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The names forwarded are Dr Vivek Sharan, Rajesh Kumar Shukla, Kanak Gaharwar alias Kanak Lata Singh, Bhakti Vyas, Shreyas Pandit, Mrinal Elker alias Mrinal Mazumdar and Avinash Zargar. The recommendations will now be sent to the central government for processing. Appointments will take effect after the Centre clears them and the President issues the warrants. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has a sanctioned strength of 53 judges, as of September 2026, it had 38 judges, leaving 15 posts vacant, a vacancy rate of about 28 per cent. In a separate decision at the same meeting, the Collegium recommended Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty as Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court, Justice P Sam Koshy as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak as Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court, and Justice Sudhir Singh as Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Barandbench.com and livelaw.in produced near-identical wire-style reports on the seven advocate elevations, with barandbench adding the vacancy data of 28 per cent. Deccanchronicle.com focused exclusively on four chief justice transfers from the same Collegium meeting, omitting the advocate appointments entirely. The three outlets together cover two different sets of recommendations from one meeting, with no disagreement on any fact. Barandbench's inclusion of the 15-vacancy figure provides context on the High Court's working strength, but neither outlet attached a government-critical or pro-government framing to that figure. The coverage is uniform straight reporting. ## Coverage Coverage: 3 sources, 3 neutral - barandbench.com (neutral report) Straight report with vacancy data added, no slant - livelaw.in (neutral report) Straight report of the recommendation, no analysis - deccanchronicle.com (neutral report) Focused on chief justice transfers, omitted advocate list This brief was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Delhi High Court, Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty, Madhya Pradesh High Court, Supreme Court collegium, Telangana High Court Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/sc-collegium-recommends-seven-advocates-as-mp-hc-judges/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/sc-collegium-recommends-seven-advocates-as-mp-hc-judges/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/