{"id":399825,"date":"2026-10-27T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=399825"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:11:24","slug":"sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p>The Supreme Court Collegium, in its meeting held on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">26 October 2026<\/span>, approved the proposal for the appointment of 7 advocates as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The advocates recommended for appointment are:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li>\n<p>Dr. Vivek Sharan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rajesh Kumar Shukla<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Kanak Gaharwar @ Kanak Lata Singh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bhakti Vyas<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Shreyas Pandit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mrinal Elker @ Mrinal Mazumdar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Avinash Zargar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">According to the Department of Justice&#8217;s statement on judicial strength dated 6 October 2026, the Madhya Pradesh High Court had a sanctioned strength of 53 Judges, comprising 40 permanent Judges and 13 Additional Judges. Its working strength stood at 38 Judges, including 33 permanent Judges and 5 Additional Judges, leaving 15 vacancies, i.e., 7 permanent Judges and 8 Additional Judges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bombay High Court Appointments<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">On the same day, the Supreme Court Collegium recommended the appointment of Ajay Sharma, Judicial Member of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), Mumbai, and advocate Vaibhav Anant Sugdare as Judges of the Bombay High Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Collegium&#8217;s recommendations will now undergo the subsequent appointment process, and the appointments will be formalised through the requisite warrants issued by the President of India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Supreme Court Collegium, at its meeting held on 26 October 2026, approved the proposal to appoint seven advocates as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court along with an advocate and a judicial member as Bombay High Court Judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67547,"featured_media":399826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[118131,59795,118140,118136,2518,118132,33608,20621,118134,118135,7201,118138,118139,118133,118137,37967],"class_list":["post-399825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-news","tag-advocate-appointments","tag-article-217","tag-avinash-zargar","tag-bhakti-vyas","tag-Bombay_High_Court","tag-dr-vivek-sharan","tag-high-court-judges","tag-judicial-appointments","tag-kanak-gaharwar","tag-kanak-lata-singh","tag-madhya-pradesh-high-court","tag-mrinal-elker","tag-mrinal-mazumdar","tag-rajesh-kumar-shukla","tag-shreyas-pandit","tag-supreme-court-collegium"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.1 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Collegium recommends 9 MP and Bombay High Court Judges Appointments 2026 | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court Collegium approved 9 advocates for appointment as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court along with an advocate and a judicial member as Bombay High Court Judges.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court Collegium approved 9 advocates for appointment as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court along with an advocate and a judicial member as Bombay High Court Judges.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-27T07:30:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"886\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"590\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Roushan K. Singh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Roushan K. Singh\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Roushan K. Singh\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f59bfdb5926e41d0293b754d7d57e8fe\"},\"headline\":\"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-27T07:30:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Advocate Appointments\",\"Article 217\",\"Avinash Zargar\",\"Bhakti Vyas\",\"Bombay High Court\",\"Dr Vivek Sharan\",\"High Court Judges\",\"judicial appointments\",\"Kanak Gaharwar\",\"Kanak Lata Singh\",\"Madhya Pradesh High Court\",\"Mrinal Elker\",\"Mrinal Mazumdar\",\"Rajesh Kumar Shukla\",\"Shreyas Pandit\",\"Supreme Court Collegium\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Appointments &amp; Transfers\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/\",\"name\":\"Collegium recommends 9 MP and Bombay High Court Judges Appointments 2026 | SCC Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-27T07:30:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f59bfdb5926e41d0293b754d7d57e8fe\"},\"description\":\"The Supreme Court Collegium approved 9 advocates for appointment as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court along with an advocate and a judicial member as Bombay High Court Judges.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp\",\"width\":886,\"height\":590,\"caption\":\"High Court Judge Appointments 2026\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/27\\\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"SCC Times\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f59bfdb5926e41d0293b754d7d57e8fe\",\"name\":\"Roushan K. Singh\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0e73a76a985d19d18143dd5f4b0464f2e474230659d082cd26d9c26b3c8da7a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0e73a76a985d19d18143dd5f4b0464f2e474230659d082cd26d9c26b3c8da7a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0e73a76a985d19d18143dd5f4b0464f2e474230659d082cd26d9c26b3c8da7a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Roushan K. Singh\"},\"description\":\"Roushan K. Singh is a former Legal Researcher at the Delhi High Court and currently works as a Legal Executive at SCC Online. His areas of interest include legal research, intellectual property law, arbitration, Legal Tech, and other emerging and interdisciplinary areas of law. The author can be reached at: roushan.singh@ebcpublishing.in\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/roushan-k-singh\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/author\\\/roushan\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Collegium recommends 9 MP and Bombay High Court Judges Appointments 2026 | SCC Times","description":"The Supreme Court Collegium approved 9 advocates for appointment as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court along with an advocate and a judicial member as Bombay High Court Judges.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges","og_description":"The Supreme Court Collegium approved 9 advocates for appointment as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court along with an advocate and a judicial member as Bombay High Court Judges.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/","og_site_name":"SCC Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/","article_published_time":"2026-10-27T07:30:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":886,"height":590,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Roushan K. Singh","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Roushan K. Singh","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/"},"author":{"name":"Roushan K. Singh","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f59bfdb5926e41d0293b754d7d57e8fe"},"headline":"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges","datePublished":"2026-10-27T07:30:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/"},"wordCount":188,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp","keywords":["Advocate Appointments","Article 217","Avinash Zargar","Bhakti Vyas","Bombay High Court","Dr Vivek Sharan","High Court Judges","judicial appointments","Kanak Gaharwar","Kanak Lata Singh","Madhya Pradesh High Court","Mrinal Elker","Mrinal Mazumdar","Rajesh Kumar Shukla","Shreyas Pandit","Supreme Court Collegium"],"articleSection":["Appointments &amp; Transfers","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/","name":"Collegium recommends 9 MP and Bombay High Court Judges Appointments 2026 | SCC Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp","datePublished":"2026-10-27T07:30:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f59bfdb5926e41d0293b754d7d57e8fe"},"description":"The Supreme Court Collegium approved 9 advocates for appointment as Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court along with an advocate and a judicial member as Bombay High Court Judges.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp","width":886,"height":590,"caption":"High Court Judge Appointments 2026"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/27\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-madhya-pradesh-bombay-high-court-judges-appointment-2026\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 for appointment as Madhya Pradesh and Bombay High Court Judges"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/","name":"SCC Times","description":"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f59bfdb5926e41d0293b754d7d57e8fe","name":"Roushan K. Singh","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e73a76a985d19d18143dd5f4b0464f2e474230659d082cd26d9c26b3c8da7a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e73a76a985d19d18143dd5f4b0464f2e474230659d082cd26d9c26b3c8da7a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e73a76a985d19d18143dd5f4b0464f2e474230659d082cd26d9c26b3c8da7a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Roushan K. Singh"},"description":"Roushan K. Singh is a former Legal Researcher at the Delhi High Court and currently works as a Legal Executive at SCC Online. His areas of interest include legal research, intellectual property law, arbitration, Legal Tech, and other emerging and interdisciplinary areas of law. The author can be reached at: roushan.singh@ebcpublishing.in","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/roushan-k-singh\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/roushan\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/High-Court-Judge-Appointments-2026.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399829,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399825\/revisions\/399829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}