Justice Aradhe Made CJ of Telangana HC

Justice Alok Aradhe was appointed the Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court by President Droupadi Murmu, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India. In a related move, Justice P. Sam Koshy of the Chhattisgarh High Court was also transferred to Telangana High Court, after the President approved the same.

The appointment of Justice Aradhe, who was serving in the Karnataka High Court, comes against the backdrop of the Supreme Court Collegium proposing his name. His parent high court is the Madhya Pradesh High Court. Justice Aradhe was born on April 13, 1964, in Raipur. After completing his LLB, he enrolled as an advocate on July 12, 1988, and was designated a senior advocate in April 2007. He was appointed an additional judge of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh on December 29, 2009, and a permanent judge on February 15, 2011. He was transferred to the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir on September 16, 2016, and then to the Karnataka High Court on November 17, 2018, and also assumed charge as the acting Chief Justice there for a few days from July 3, 2022.

Besides serving as a justice, he revised the fifth and sixth editions of ‘Principles of Administrative Law’ by M.P. Jain and S.N. Jain, with late Justice G.P. Singh, the then Chief Justice of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh. Aradhe also served as a visiting faculty at the Judicial Officers Training and Research Institute. He is an expert in civil, constitutional, arbitration and company matters.

Meanwhile, Justice P. Sam Koshy was serving as a Judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court, since his appointment on September 16, 2013. He leaves the Chhattisgarh court as its fourth seniormost judge.