{"id":48518,"date":"2017-06-05T06:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T01:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=48518"},"modified":"2017-06-05T06:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T01:21:54","slug":"14-additional-judges-sworn-bombay-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/14-additional-judges-sworn-bombay-high-court","title":{"rendered":"14 additional judges sworn in for Bombay High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47353\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47353\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/no-corruption-case-made-traffic-police-acb-hc\/bombay-high-court-18\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=350%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bombay High Court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=350%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47353 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=300%2C123&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"14 additional judges sworn in for Bombay High Court\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=150%2C62&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">14 additional judges sworn in for Bombay High Court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fourteen judges were today sworn in as additional judges of the Bombay High Court, taking its strength to 75.<\/p>\n<p>The new appointees were sworn in by Chief Justice Manjula Chellur in the presence of all other judges of the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 new judges include Riyaz Chagla, grandson of M C Chagla, the first permanent Indian Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court after Independence, and five others from the Bar, and eight elevated from the subordinate judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 14, two are woman judges &#8211; Vibha Kankanwadi and Bharti Dangre.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctioned strength of judges in the Bombay High Court is 90.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Riyaz Chagla, the new judges are Sunil Kotwal, Arun Upadhye, Mangesh Patil, Arun Dhavale, Prithviraj Chavan, Murlidhar Giratkar and Sopan Gavhane from the district judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Patil was the HC Registrar General till his elevation.<\/p>\n<p>From the bar, Maharashtra&#8217;s Advocate General Rohit Deo and public prosecutor Sandeep Shinde were sworn in today.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen judges were today sworn in as additional judges of the Bombay High Court, taking its strength to 75. 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