With half its benches cold and echoing, the Allahabad High Court is finally getting reinforcements. The Central government has cleared the appointment of five judicial officers to join the court’s depleted roster of judges.
Set to don the robes are:
- Pramod Kumar Srivastava-II
- Santosh Rai
- Zafeer Ahmad
- Abdul Shahid
- Tej Pratap Tiwari
The Supreme Court Collegium had greenlit the names of Srivastava, Rai, and Ahmad in July 2025, while Shahid and Tiwari received the Collegium’s nod back in April.
Even with these new additions, the court remains critically understaffed. Against a sanctioned strength of 160, only 80 judges have been manning the dockets—now marginally boosted by five.
Meanwhile, a plea continues to languish within the very halls it seeks to rescue. It demands urgent, time-bound action to address the chronic vacancy crisis plaguing the court—where justice delayed begins with justice unseated.
