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The Supreme Court collegium agreed in principle to reiterate the recommendation for elevation of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K M Joseph as a judge of the apex court, after his name was returned by the Centre.
Justice Joseph had headed the bench in the Uttarakhand High Court that had quashed the Narendra Modi government's decision to impose President's Rule in the Congress-ruled hill state in 2016. In 2017, the Congress lost the assembly election there. After an hour-long deliberation, the five-member collegium, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and judges J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian
