15 judges sworn in

Fifteen judges of the Madras High
Court were today sworn in with the Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul administering the oath of office to them.
Newly appointed Registrar General Sathish Kumar read out the warrant of appointments issued by the President of India.
Six of the judges are from the subordinate judiciary-- S Bhaskaran, Bhasheer Ahmed, G Jaichandran, Ravindran, Velmurugan, C V Karthikeyan while nine from the Bar--V Parthiban, R Subramanian, M Govindaraj, M Sundar, R Sureshkumar, Ms Nishabanu, M S Ramesh, S M Subramanian, Anitha Sumanth.
With this, the total strength of Judges has risen to 54 against the sanctioned strength of 75.

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Speaking to reporters later, Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said in reply to a question on filling up the remaining vacancies, that he cannot say anything on the subject as a Chief Justice.
"We are only hoping that once the process is over we will know exactly how many vacancies are left.With today's appointments we have 54 judges.
"We will begin the process of appointment of judges for the remaining vacancies later and it is in the pipeline," he said.