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On 11\/12 May 2026, the Supreme Court Collegium led by CJI Surya Kant, recommended the appointment of 9 advocates as Judges of Calcutta High Court. The recommended names are as follows:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n

    Indranil Roy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    Aryak Dutt<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    Atarup Banerjee<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    Sandip Kumar De,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. \n

    Partha Pratim Roy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. \n

    Sudip Deb<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. \n

    Anuj Singh,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  8. \n

    Arjun Ray Mukherjee<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  9. \n

    Rishad Medora<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As of 1 May 2026, Calcutta High Court has 30 vacancies and its working strength is 42 Judges as against the sanctioned judges’ strength of 721<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Also Read:<\/span> Cabinet Clears Proposal to Add Four More Supreme Court Judges, Taking Total Strength to 38<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

    1.<\/a> https:\/\/www.doj.gov.in\/static\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c0f593db7c35d425c94883b9a4afb139.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As of 1 May 2026, Calcutta High Court has a working strength of 42 Judges and there are 30 vacancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[73456,2689,32789,33608,104264,104265,37967],"class_list":["post-384078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-news","tag-advocates-as-judges","tag-Calcutta_High_Court","tag-collegium-recommendations","tag-high-court-judges","tag-judge-vacancy","tag-judges-strength","tag-supreme-court-collegium"],"yoast_head":"\nSC Collegium recommends 9 Advocates as Calcutta HC Judges | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 Advocates as Judges of Calcutta High Court.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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