14 lawyers to be elevated as judges

By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad,April 30: First the time in the history of the AP High Court, the Collegium has decided to elevate 14 advocates of the Bar to be the judges of the High Court. So far, the Collegium has recommended 13 advocates of the Bar to become judges in 1999 when the TD was in power and the Centre had cleared 11 names out of it.

The Collegium consisting Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru, Justice B. Prakash Rao and Justice Ghulam Mohammed which had met at the Chief Justice Secretariat prepared a panel consisting 14 names to be sent to the Centre and to the Supreme Court to be appointed as judges.

Sources in the judiciary said that Mr A. Sudarshan Reddy, advocate-general, Mr K.G. Krishna Murthy, additional advocate-general, Mr Vinod Kumar Deshpande, public prosecutor, and advocates Mr C. Praveen Kumar Reddy, Mr M.S. Ramachandra Rao, Mr L. Prabhakar Reddy , Mr Fazal Yusufuddin, Mr Jalli Kankaiah, Mr Jonnalgadda Sudheer, Mr Posani Venkateswarlu, Mr Y. Ashok Raj, Mr Katikaneni Ramesh, Mr Vinod and Mr Venkat Rama Rao were selected to be elevated as judges.