Madras HC top 3:  After Madras HC’s second-most senior judge R Banumathi gets elevated soon as chief justice (CJ) of Jharkhand HC, Chhatisgarh HC’s third most senior judge will be transferred to replace Banumathi at Madras. The third-most senior Madras HC judge Chitra Venkataraman soon stands to be elevated as the Jammu & Kashmir HC’s CJ – as its first ever woman CJ. The top 3 judges of any HC are responsible for appointing its advocates and subordinate judicial officers [TOI]

VVIP judges: The Supreme Court asked the Delhi HC CJ to warn Delhi additional district and sessions judge Narender Kumar Sharma, who is also the special CBI judge at the Tis Hazari complex, about “misuse of power”. Sharma had asked for VVIP security during his nine-day private visit to his ancestral village [TOI]