Mumbai: The President of India on Tuesday issued a notification transferring Bombay High Court Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya as the Chief Justice of Delhi HC. A notification was also issued transferring CJ of Telangana HC, Alok Aradhe, as CJ of Bombay HC.

On January 7, the Supreme Court Collegium recommended the transfer of CJ Upadhyay,as the CJ of Delhi HC CJ. The SC Collegium, headed by the Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, also recommended transfer of Justice Alok Aradhe, Chief Justice of the Telangana HC, to the Bombay HC. Justice Aradhe from the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

CJ Upadhyaya, who hails from the Allahabad HC, was appointed as Bombay HC CJ on July 24, 2023. He succeeded CJ RD Dhanuka, who retired on May 30, after a brief tenure of four days. He was appointed as judge of the Allahabad HC on November 21, 2011 and is the senior most judge at the Allahabad HC.

The Bombay HC is currently functioning with 64 judges: 54 permanent judges and 10 additional judges. Justice Aradhe was appointed as an additional judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in 2009, and as a permanent judge in 2011.

He was transferred to the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir in 2016 and served as its Acting Chief Justice for 3 months in 2018. After that, he took oath as a judge of the Karnataka High Court on November 17, 2018 and served as Acting Chief Justice for a few months in 2022. In July 2023, he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court.