Collegium decides to recommend names of 4 HC chief justices for elevation as SC judges

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to recommended to the Centre the names of four Chief Justices of high courts for elevation as judges of the apex court, sources said.

They said the collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and comprising four-senior most judges of the top court, met to deliberate upon the names of Justices Hemant Gupta, Ajay Rastogi, M R Shah and R Subhash Reddy for their elevation as apex court judges.

The collegium has decided to recommend these four names to the Centre for their elevation as judges of the apex court, the sources said.

Justice Gupta is currently the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, while Justice Rastogi is presently the Chief Justice of Tripura High Court. Similarly, Justice Shah is the

incumbent Chief Justice of the Patna High Court while Justice Reddy is the Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court.