Two new judges at the Supreme Court; Chief Justices of Orissa and Allahabad to be elevated to the Supreme Court

In the first round of elevations made by the Sathasivam Court, the Apex Court is set to have only one vacancy out of the 31 sanctioned posts. As per a report in The Hindu, the elevation of Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh (Allahabad High Court) and Chief Justice C Nagappan (Orissa High Court) has been cleared by the Supreme Court collegium..Born in November 1951, Chief Justice SK Singh was enrolled in Patna in March 1977, and was eventually designated a Senior Advocate in 1990. Nearly nine years later, he was made a Permanent Judge of the Patna High Court on December 29, 1998. Justice SK Singh was the Acting Chief Justice of the High Court for approximately eleven months over three, separate terms stretching from May 2009 to July 2010. Justice SK Singh was transferred to the Allahabad High Court in October 2012 and was made its Chief Justice on February 4, 2013..Born in October 1951, Chief Justice C Nagappan hails from Madras and enrolled as an advocate in August 1984. He was a junior in the chambers of former Attorney General of India, K. Parasaran before being directly recruited as a District Judge in 1987. He was made a Permanent Judge of the Madras High Court in September 2002. In February this year, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court..Although this is the first set of elevations made to the Sathasivam Court to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court collegium recently cleared the appointment of three High Court Chief Justices, namely that of Jharkhand (Justice Banumathi from Madras), Delhi (Justice Ramana from Andhra Pradesh) and Meghalaya (Justice PC Pant from Uttarakhand). The Supreme Court collegium also cleared eight additions to the Madras High Court..In all, in the first three months of CJI P Sathasivam’s tenure, a total of 11 appointments at the High Court level and 2 at the level of the Supreme Court have been made.