New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The Union government has appointed 16 new high court judges and additional judges, the ministry of law and justice said on Friday.

Additional judges Harinath Nunepally, Kiranmayee Mandava, Sumathi Jagadam and Nyapathy Vijay were appointed judges of the Andhra Pradesh high court, while additional judges Partha Sarathi Sen and Apurba Sinha Ray were named judges of the Calcutta High Court.

Vimal Kumar Yadav was appointed judge to the Delhi high court, Ravindra Kumar Agrawal to Chhattisgarh, and Gurusiddaiah Basavaraja to Karnataka.

Biswaroop Chowdhury, Prasenjit Biswas, Uday Kumar, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Supratim Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, and Md. Shabbar Rashidi were named additional judges of the Calcutta h...