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SC Collegium recommends seven advocates as MP HC judges
The Story in Brief
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: 3 sources, 3 neutral
Sources (3): barandbench.com (neutral report), livelaw.in (neutral report), deccanchronicle.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
