Justice Sunita Agarwal, appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India in October 2026, was until then the Chief Justice of which High Court?

The correct answer is Shri Gurvinder Pal Singh. The Ministry of Law and Justice notification states that the President, after consulting the Chief Justice of India, appointed Shri Gurvinder Pal Singh, a judicial officer, as an Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court. Option B is wrong because Aparesh Kumar Singh was the Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court and he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, not an Additional Judge of a High Court. Option C is wrong because Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya was the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and he too moved to the Supreme Court. Option D is wrong because that name does not figure in either judicial notification of the day. Note the distinction the two notifications draw: for a High Court appointment the release records consultation with the Chief Justice of India, while the Supreme Court notification refers only to the powers the Constitution confers on the President.

The correct answer is two of the three judges elevated had Allahabad as their parent High Court. The notification records Allahabad as the parent High Court of Justice Sunita Agarwal and of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, while Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh belongs to the Jharkhand High Court. Option A is wrong because only Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh has Jharkhand as his parent High Court. Option C is wrong because the three were heading three different High Courts, namely Gujarat, Delhi and Telangana, when they were appointed. Option D is wrong because the notification describes each of the three as a Chief Justice of a High Court at the time of appointment, which is exactly why the release is titled as the appointment of Chief Justices of High Courts as Judges of the Supreme Court. For the examination, remember both the court each judge led and the parent High Court each belongs to.

The correct answer is the Department of Land Resources. His appointment as Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change followed his tenure as Secretary of the Department of Land Resources, which works under the Ministry of Rural Development. Option B, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, sits in the Ministry of Jal Shakti and is not a post he held. Option C, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, is the department that drives governance reform campaigns across ministries, and it has no link to his career record. Option D, the Department of Science and Technology, is a Union department, but his science and technology charge was in the Uttar Pradesh government as Principal Secretary, not at the Centre. Hence option A alone is correct.

The correct answer is Narendra Bhooshan. He has taken over as Secretary of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the ministry that handles forests, wildlife, pollution control and climate policy for the country. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre and reached this post after serving as Secretary of the Department of Land Resources in the Ministry of Rural Development. Option A, Keshav Chandra, is the Secretary in the Ministry of Mines and not in the environment ministry. Option C, Ashok K. K. Meena, heads the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Option D, Kamal Kishore Soan, is Additional Secretary and Mission Director of the National Jal Jeevan Mission, again a water sector post rather than an environment one. So only option B names the new environment Secretary correctly.

The correct answer is Uttar Pradesh. Narendra Bhooshan is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, and he belongs to the batch of the year 1992. His long list of state assignments confirms the cadre: he served as Additional Chief Secretary for Energy, Additional Energy Sources and Technical Education, as Principal Secretary in departments such as Public Works, Industries Development, Information Technology and Electronics, Science and Technology and Panchayati Raj, and as Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Noida Authority. He was also District Magistrate of Mathura and of Firozabad, both districts of Uttar Pradesh. Options A, B and D name Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar, and none of these states figures among his cadre postings, so each of them is wrong. Only option C matches the cadre of the officer.