{"id":400113,"date":"2026-10-30T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=400113"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:29:28","slug":"sc-collegium-recommends-9-advocates-jammu-kashmir-ladakh-high-court-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/10\/30\/sc-collegium-recommends-9-advocates-jammu-kashmir-ladakh-high-court-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Collegium recommends 9 Advocates as Judges of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"\">The Supreme Court Collegium, in its meeting held on 29 October 2026, has approved the proposal for the appointment of nine advocates as Judges of the High Court of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh. The advocates recommended for appointment are:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li>\n<p>Vishal Sharma<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Vikram Kumar Sharma<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Namgyal Wangchuk<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pawan Kumar Kundal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Tahir Majid Shamsi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Tabasum Zafar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Amit Gupta<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pranav Kohli<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Anupam Raina<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vacancy positions in the Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh High Court<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">According to the Department of Justice&#8217;s statement on the sanctioned strength, working strength and vacancies of Judges in the Supreme Court and High Courts, as on 6 October 2026, the High Court of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh had 11 vacancies against a sanctioned strength of 25 Judges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The sanctioned strength comprises 19 permanent Judges and 6 Additional Judges. Against this, the High Court had a working strength of 14 Judges, all permanent, leaving 5 vacancies in the permanent Judges category and 6 in the Additional Judges category.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-collapse: collapse; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; table-layout: auto; width: 150.95mm; margin-bottom: 3%;\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"150\"\/>\n<col width=\"142\"\/>\n<col width=\"151\"\/>\n<col width=\"66\"\/>\n<\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; 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border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 40.01mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm;font-weight: bold;\">Additional Judges<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 17.5mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm;font-weight: bold;\">Total<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 39.76mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Sanctioned strength<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 37.68mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm; text-align: center;\">19<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 40.01mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm; text-align: center;\">6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; 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border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 37.68mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm; text-align: center;\">14<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 40.01mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm; text-align: center;\">0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 17.5mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm; text-align: center;\">14<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 39.76mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Vacancies<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; 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text-align: center;\">6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" colspan=\"1\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-width: 0.5pt; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #000000; border-right-width: 0.5pt; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; border-top-width: 0.5pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; padding-bottom: 0.0mm; padding-left: 1.91mm; padding-right: 1.91mm; padding-top: 0.0mm; vertical-align: middle; width: 17.5mm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0mm; text-align: center;\">11<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Collegium&#8217;s recommendations come against this vacancy in the Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. The 9 advocates will be appointed as Judges upon approval by the President of India and issuance of the requisite notification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67547,"featured_media":400115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[118384,118391,118393,42871,116288,33608,118394,31425,118395,55664,37965,68256,111930,118387,118388,118392,39753,111881,37967,34169,118390,118389,118386,118385],"class_list":["post-400113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-news","tag-advocates-appointed-as-high-court-judges","tag-amit-gupta","tag-anupam-raina","tag-department-of-justice","tag-high-court-judge-appointments-2026","tag-high-court-judges","tag-high-court-vacancies","tag-jk-high-court","tag-jk-high-court-vacancies","tag-jammu-kashmir-and-ladakh-high-court","tag-jammu-and-kashmir-high-court","tag-judge-appointments","tag-judicial-appointments-2026","tag-namgyal-wangchuk","tag-pawan-kumar-kundal","tag-pranav-kohli","tag-sc-collegium","tag-sc-collegium-recommendations-2026","tag-supreme-court-collegium","tag-supreme-court-of-india","tag-tabasum-zafar","tag-tahir-majid-shamsi","tag-vikram-kumar-sharma","tag-vishal-sharma"],"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>SC Collegium Recommends 9 Advocates as J&amp;K and Ladakh High Court Judges | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SC Collegium recommends nine advocates as Judges of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. 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