Four HCs get 14 judges; Yash Paul Bourney appointed to J&K and Ladakh HC
20/09/2026
New Delhi, Sep 19: The Centre on Saturday notified the appointment of 14 judicial officers as judges and additional judges to four High Courts, including the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
According to separate notifications issued by the Department of Justice, two judges and five additional judges have been appointed to the Delhi High Court, while one judge has been appointed to the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Three judges have been appointed to the Jharkhand High Court and three additional judges to the Karnataka High Court.
Senior judicial officer Yash Paul Bourney has been appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. The appointment follows the recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium made on September 10, 2026.
Bourney, born on August 25, 1967, joined the Jammu and Kashmir judicial service on December 1, 1997, and entered the District Judge cadre on August 30, 2011. He was subsequently placed in the Super Time Scale of the Jammu and Kashmir Higher Judicial Service.
He has served as Principal District and Sessions Judge, Udhampur, and Principal District and Sessions Judge, Jammu. He is presently serving on deputation as a Member of the J&K Special Tribunal, Jammu, a position he took up in November 2025. Bourney has also served as Director of the J&K Judicial Academy and has been associated with judicial training programmes relating to judgment writing, application of law and judicial administration.
The other appointments include Nivedita Anil Sharma and Nisha Sahay Saxena as judges of the Delhi High Court, while Sanjay Sharma, Bharat Parashar, Dr Aditi Choudhary, Dinesh Bhatt and Arun Bhardwaj have been appointed as additional judges. Manoj Prasad, Akhil Kumar and Ram Sharma have been appointed as judges of the Jharkhand High Court, while Usharani, K S Bharath Kumar and Nerale V Bhavani have been appointed as additional judges of the Karnataka High Court.
Additional judges are generally appointed for a specified period before being considered for continuation as permanent judges, subject to the constitutional process.
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