Centre notifies appointment of 21 members to NCLT benches

The central government has notified the appointment of twenty-one members to various Benches of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). Eleven of the appointees are judicial members and rest technical members.

According to the notification issued on Sunday, the former judges and lawyers have been appointed as judicial members are Justice (retd.) Telaprolu Rajani (NCLT Amaravati), Justice (retd.) Pradeep Narhari Deshmukh (NCLT Mumbai), Justice (retd.) S Ramathilagam (NCLT Chennai), Dharminder Singh (NCLT Delhi), Harnam Singh Thakur (NCLT Chandigarh),

P Mohan Raj (NCLT Cuttack), Rohit Kapoor (NCLT Kolkata), Deep Chandra Joshi (NCLT Jaipur), Venkata Ramakrishna Badrinath

Nandula (NCLT Hyderabad), Bachu Venkat Balarama Das (NCLT Delhi), Kishore Vemilapalli (NCLT Mumbai),

The technical members appointed to various NCLTs are Ajax Das Mehrotra (NCLT Ahmedabad), Balraj Joshi (NCLT Kolkata),

Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar (NCLT Delhi), Subrata Kumar Dash (NCLT Chandigarh), Avinash K Srivastava (NCLT Delhi), Shree Prakash Singh (NCLT Indore), Sameer Kakar (NCLT Chennai), Manoj Kumar Dubey (NCLT Bengaluru), Kaushalendra Kumar Singh (NCLT Ahmedabad) and Anuradha Sanjay Bhatia (NCLT Mumbai).

The government had announced the appointment of 31 people as judicial, technical and accountant members at the NCLT and the ITAT in September, amid the Supreme Court flagging concerns about vacancies at various tribunals.