Six new judges to be sworn in tomorrow

After a two year gap, the swearing in of six new judges will take place in Madras High court tomorrow.
The ceremony will take place at 3.15 PM as the warrant of appointment of the six new Judges arrived very late today, High court sources said.
The present Registrar General Kalaiyarasan and another District Judge Gokuldas (since retired) from the Judiciary and Bharathidasan, S Sunder, M V Muralidharan and D Krishnakumar from the Bar will take oath as Judges.
Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul will administer the oath to them.
The previous appointment was in December 2013, when Justice V M Velumani was sworn in. After this, no new appointments were made.

The stir by lawyers seeking caste-wise appointments had stalled the procedure for some time followed by litigation pending in the Supreme Court with regard to constitution of the National Judicial Appointment Commission.

Only after December 2013 were the names recommended by the collegiums headed by the present Chief Justice Sanajy Kishan Kaul cleared.
Of the nine names recommended, six had been confirmed by the Supreme Court Collegiums.
Of these, two are from the Judiciary and four from the Bar.