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The recommendations include six names for the Chhattisgarh High Court and five for the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The two High Courts had 9 and 15 vacancies, respectively, as on 6 October 2026.
The High Court has 11 vacancies against a sanctioned strength of 25 Judges, according to the Department of Justice figures as on 6 October 2026.
The President has appointed Dharmalingam Lingeswaran and Balathandayutham Karthikeyan as Additional Judges of the Madras High Court for two years under Article 224(1) of the Constitution.
The President has appointed Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari as Acting Chief Justice of the Uttaranchal High Court with effect from 9 October 2026, following the retirement of Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta on 8 October 2026.
The President appoints Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre, Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak and Justice Puthichira Sam Koshy as Acting Chief Justices of the Delhi, Gujarat and Telangana High Courts under Article 223 of the Constitution.
The President has appointed Gurvinder Pal Singh as an Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court under Article 224(1), following the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendation dated 10 September 2026.
The President has appointed Justices Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Sunita Agarwal and Aparesh Kumar Singh as Judges of the Supreme Court, following the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendations dated 28 September 2026.
The President has appointed 12 Additional Judges as Permanent Judges of the Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Uttaranchal and Gauhati High Courts, following the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendations dated 23 September 2026.
On 23 September 2026, the Supreme Court Collegium has recommended 11 Additional Judges for appointment as Permanent Judges of the Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand High Courts.
The President has reappointed Shashi Prakash Singh, Krishna Nandan Singh and Satyapal Jain as Additional Solicitors General for the Allahabad, Patna, and Punjab and Haryana High Courts, respectively, with effect from 1 October 2026.
The President has appointed 30 persons as Judges and Additional Judges of the Madras, Calcutta, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh High Courts, including five Judges of the Madras High Court and 25 Additional Judges across the four High Courts. The appointments were notified through separate Gazette notifications dated 7 August 2026.