The Appointment committee approves the proposal for the appointment of Judicial Members and Technical Members in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT).
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the proposal for appointment of the following persons to the posts of Judicial Member and Technical Member in the National Company Law Tribunal, in the pay scale of Rs.67,000 to Rs.79,000/- (pre-revised), for a period of 5 years from the date of assumption of charge of the post, or till attaining the age of 65 years, or until further orders, whichever is the earliest.
The Centre has approved the proposal for the appointment of a total of 18 members to the NCLT, comprising 8 judicial members and 10 technical members. The Judicial members are Justice Telaprolu Rajani (Judge at Andhra Pradesh High Court); Justice Pradeep Narhari Deshmukh (Retd. Judge, Bombay High Court); Justice S. Ramathilagam (Retd. Judge, Madras High Court); Dharminder Singh (Presiding Officer, DRT-3, Delhi); Harnam Singh Thakur (Retd. Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court); P. Mohan Raj (Retd. District Court Judge Principal District Court, Salem, Tamil Nadu); Rohit Kapoor (Advocate); Deep Chandra Joshi (District Court Judge).
The 10 NCLT technical members are Ajai Das Mehrotra (IRS, Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax); Balraj Joshi (Retd. CMD, NHPC); Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar, (IAS (UP:83), Retd. Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj); Subrata Kumar Dash (IRS, Retd. Principal Director General of Income Tax); Avinash K. Srivastava (IAS (UP:82), Retd. Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs); Prakash Singh (Retd. Chief General Manager, SBI); Sameer Kakar (Chartered Accountant); Manoj Kumar Dubey (IRS Retd. Director General of Income Tax); Kaushalendra Kumar Singh (IRS, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax) Anuradha Sanjay Bhatia (IRS, Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax).
On the other hand, in the ITAT, 13 new appointments have been made, comprising 6 judicial members and 7 accountant members Those who have been appointed as the judicial members are Advocate Sonjoy Sharma, Advocate S. Seethalakshmi Shatin Goyal (Additional District and Sessions Judge), Anubhav Sharma (Additional District and Sessions Judge), Advocate T. R. Senthil Kumar; Manmohan Das (Law officer, SBI). While the 4 judicial members are coming from the un-reserved category, 1 each from the Other Backward Class (OBC) category and Scheduled Caste (SC) category have also been appointed as judicial members.
Their appointment would be valid for a period of four years or till they attain the age of sixty-seven years, whichever is earlier.
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