The President of India on Tuesday appointed the judge of Jharkhand high court Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh as chief justice of Tripura high court, which has been lying vacant for the last few months.

• Justice Singh got enrolled as an advocate and practiced at Patna high court and Jharkhand high court from 1990 till his elevation as additional judge of the high court of Jharkhand in 2012.
• He has also served as the acting chief justice of the Jharkhand high court between December 22, 2022, and February 19, 2023.
• The collegium proposed the appointment of Justice Jaswant Singh, a judge of the Orissa high court, as the chief justice of the Tripura high court on January 25 last but within a week of his joining Justice Singh got retired from the service on Feb 22.