ON OCTOBER 14, THE UNION GOVERNMENT notified the transfer of eleven High Court judges from one High Court to another. This follows the recommendations made by the Supreme Court Collegium on August 25, 2025.
Two Delhi High Court judges, Justices Tara Vitasta Ganju and Arun Monga, have been transferred to the Karnataka High Court and the Rajasthan High Court, respectively.
The Delhi High Court has received three more judges from other High Courts. Justices Dinesh Mehta and Avneesh Jhingan from the Rajasthan High Court have been transferred to the Delhi High Court.
Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha from the Kerala High Court has also been transferred to the Delhi High Court.
Notably, Justice Monga was transferred to the Delhi High Court from the Rajasthan High Court in May 2025 and assumed office there in July 2025. The reasons necessitating his return to the Rajasthan High Court are not in the public domain. Justice Monga originally hails from the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
At the Delhi High Court, Justice Monga is at serial number 14 in seniority, and Justice Ganju is at serial number 21. In the Rajasthan High Court, Justice Monga will be at serial number 7, while Justice Ganju will be at serial number 38 in the Karnataka High Court.
The Delhi High Court has received three more judges from other High Courts.
Justices Mehta and Jhingan are at serial numbers 4 and 8, respectively, at the Rajasthan High Court. At the Delhi High Court, Justice Mehta will be at serial number 4, and Justice Jhingan will be at serial number 10.
Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha is at serial number 27 at the Kerala High Court. She will be at serial number 20 at the Delhi High Court.
With these transfers, the Delhi High Court will have nine judges from other High Courts, excluding its Chief Justice, Devendra Kumar Upadhyay.
In September this year, the Delhi High Court Bar Association (‘DHCBA’) wrote to CJI B.R. Gavai and the Supreme Court collegium, flagging concern over the “alarming frequency” of judicial transfers from the Delhi High Court. The DHCBA had said that frequent transfers of judges from the Delhi High Court had caused unease both within the institution and among members of the Bar.
The government has also cleared the transfer of Justice Sandeep Natvarlal Bhatt from the Gujarat High Court to the Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is at serial number 17 in the Gujarat High Court and will be at serial number 14 in the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
Justice Manavendranath Roy, who was on transfer to the Gujarat High Court, has been repatriated to his parent High Court in Andhra Pradesh. Justice Donadi Ramesh has also been repatriated to his parent High Court in Andhra Pradesh from the Allahabad High Court.
The government has also approved the transfer of Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh from the Allahabad High Court to the Patna High Court.
Additionally, the government has approved the transfer of Justice Subhendu Samanta from the Calcutta High Court to the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
On October 14, the Collegium modified its earlier recommendation to transfer Justice Atul Sreedharan from the Madhya Pradesh High Court to the Chhattisgarh High Court. It has now decided to send him to the Allahabad High Court after the government sought reconsideration of his transfer to the Chhattisgarh High Court.
The government has yet to issue notifications regarding the transfer of Justice Sanjay Agrawal from the Chhattisgarh High Court to the Allahabad High Court, and Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal from the Allahabad High Court to the Patna High Court.
The transfers are made by the President of India under Article 222(1) of the Constitution in consultation with the Chief Justice of India. The Chief Justice’s opinion is formed in consultation with four senior judges of the Supreme Court.
The decision to transfer these judges was made by a Collegium comprising Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai and Justices Surya Kant, Vikram Nath, J.K. Maheshwari, and B.V. Nagarathna.