President appoints HC judges for AP, MP and Odisha

New Delhi, Feb 10 (UNI) President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed 7 judges in Andhra Pradesh High Court, 6 in Madhya Pradesh High Court and 3 in Odisha High Court, and elevated one of the judges as the Chief Justice of Madras High Court. “In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Konakanti Sreenivasa Reddy alias Srinivasa Reddy, Gannamaneni Ramakrishna Prasad, Venkateswarlu Nimmagadda, Tarlada Rajasekhar Rao, Satti Subba Reddy, Ravi Cheemalapati, and Smt. Vaddiboyana Sujatha, to be Judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court,” the notification said. Similarly, the President also appointed V Narasingh, Biraja Prasanna Satapathy and Murahari Sri Raman, to be Judges of the Odisha High Court, in that order of seniority, with effect from the date they assume charge of their respective offices. The President appointed Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari, Judge of the Madras High Court, to be the Chief Justice of Madras High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office. The President has appointed Maninder Singh Bhatti, Dwarka Dhish Bansal, Milind Ramesh Phadke, Amar Nath (Kesharwani), Prakash Chandra Gupta and Dinesh Kumar Paliwal, to be Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, the notification said.