NEW DELHI: The central government has issued a notification appointing Acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court Ashish J Desai as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court. The Centre accepted the Supreme Collegium's recommendation. It was Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal who informed this through Twitter.

The collegium recommended the name of Ashish J Desai on the grounds that the Gujarat High Court was not represented among the Chief Justices of the High Court. Born on 5th July 1962 in Vadodara, he became a judge of the Gujarat High Court on 21 November 2011. His father Jitendra P. Desai was a judge of the Gujarat High Court.