The Centre on Wednesday cleared the elevation of 11 judges as permanent judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court, a day after the Supreme Court gave the government a week’s time to explain the delay in the appointment and transfer of 70 high court judges and warned that it might not sit quiet.

Judges are initially appointed for a one- or two-year term as additional judges of a high court and only thereafter elevated as permanent judges.

An official order issued by Rajinder Kashyap, special secretary to the Government of India, ministry of law and justice, said the following additional judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court had been appointed as permanent judges of that court: Justices Nidhi Gupta, Sanjay Vashisth, Tribhuvan Dahiya, Namit Kumar, Harkesh Manuja, Aman Chaudhary, Naresh Singh, Harsh Bunger, Jagmohan Bansal, Deepak Manchanda and Alok Jain.

The appointments have been made “with effect from the date they assume charge of their respective offices”, the order said.

It was not immediately clear whether these 11 judges were among the 70 names recommended by the collegium and pending for various periods since last November.

On Tuesday, a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia pulled up the Centre for the delay in the appointment or transfer of the 70 judges of various high courts, including the chief justice of a “sensitive” high court.

The high court in strife-torn Manipur has been without a regular chief justice since February 6 and the Supreme Court had made a recommendation on June 5.

Justice Kaul, heading the bench and also the second seniormost member of the collegium after Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, had made it clear on Tuesday that the top court would not brook any further delay: “Today I am quiet because the attorney-general (R. Venkataramani) says he wants one week’s time. Next time I may not be quiet.”

The court briefly adjourned the matter for further hearing to October 9 upon a request from the AG.