The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended six names for appointment as judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court. The advocates named include Anand Shukla, Ratna Nidhi Pusty (also known as R.N. Pusty or Ratan Pusty), Shashank Thakur, and Sourabh Sharma. The Collegium, headed by the Chief Justice of India, exercises the power of judicial appointments under the constitutional framework established through the Three Judges Cases, making such recommendations binding on the executive.

The Collegium system is the mechanism by which judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts are appointed in India. It evolved through three landmark Supreme Court decisions — the First Judges Case (S.P. Gupta v. Union of India, 1981), the Second Judges Case (Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association v. Union of India, 1993), and the Third Judges Case (Presidential Reference, 1998). Together, these cases shifted appointment power from the executive to the judiciary, establishing that the Chief Justice of India's opinion, formed collectively through the Collegium, is binding.

For High Court appointments, the Collegium consists of the CJI and the two senior-most judges of the Supreme Court. The recommendation must also involve the Chief Justice of the relevant High Court and the Governor and Chief Minister of the concerned state. Once the Collegium reiterates a recommendation, the government is constitutionally bound to act on it.

The NJAC (National Judicial Appointments Commission) — created by the 99th Constitutional Amendment in 2014 to replace the Collegium — was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2015 (Fourth Judges Case / NJAC Case) as violating judicial independence, a basic structure element. The Collegium system therefore continues to operate. This recommendation for Chhattisgarh High Court illustrates the live operation of that system, making it directly relevant for understanding Articles 124, 217, and 224 of the Constitution.