28 additional judges of Allahabad High Court elevated as permanent judges
New Delhi: Twenty-eight additional judges of the Allahabad High Court were elevated as permanent judges on Tuesday.
An additional judge is usually elevated as a permanent judge after two years based on his or her performance.
According to a notification issued by the Department of Justice in the Law Ministry, 28 additional judges have been made judges in the Allahabad High Court.
The largest high court in the country in terms of the number of judges and cases, the Allahabad High Court has a sanctioned strength of 160 judges but is working with a working strength of 100 -- a shortage of 60 judges as of November 1 -- according to the Law Ministry website.
India has 25 high courts.
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Anura Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka's presidential election
Colombo (PTI): Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday was declared winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by the country's Election Commission after an unprecedented second round of counting of votes.
Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People’s Power (NPP), defeated his closest rival Sajith Premadasa of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB).
Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe was eliminated in the first round after he failed to become within the top two in the vote list.
NPP said Dissanayake will take oath on Monday.
Earlier, the Election Commission ordered a second round of counting after no candidate secured over 50 per cent votes needed to be declared the winner of Saturday's election.
Dissanayake will be the country's 9th president.
No election in Sri Lanka has ever progressed to the second round of counting, as single candidates have always emerged as clear winners based on first-preference votes.
