NEW DELHI: After two months of uncertainties with most senior judge tendering resignation and second senior-most getting transferred to Meghalaya, Bombay High Court will get a new Chief Justice from Calcutta HC to succeed present CJ B P Dharamdhikari, who retires on April 27.The Supreme Court Collegium headed by CJI S A Bobde decided to recommend to the Union government to appoint Justice Dipankar Datta of Calcutta HC as the CJ of Bombay HC. Justice Datta is son of former Calcutta HC Judge Salil Kumar Datta and brother-in-law of former SC Judge Amitava Roy . Because of lockdown, the Collegium members did not meet at one place as has been the practice and decided the new CJ of Bombay HC through circulation of the file.Among the oldest and biggest, the Bombay HC has been in the eye of some unsavoury events for past two months. When Collegium headed by CJI Bobde attempted to transfer senior-most judge S C Dharmadhikari, he resigned on February 15 despite having more than two years tenure left. It was conveyed to the public that the most senior Judge did not want to shift out of Mumbai and that he resigned to avoid moving to another state. Five days later, the SC collegium transferred second senior most Judge, Justice S V More, to Meghalaya HC. On February 24, the Collegium appointed Justice B P Dharmadhikari as CJ of HC for a little over two month tenure.If resignation of Justice SC Dharmadhikari raised concern amidst legal circles about the Collegium system being insensitive to Judges' personal difficulties, the transfer of Justice More to Meghalaya HC, sources said, raised concern about the transfer procedure not being scrupulously followed by the Collegium as one of the consulting SC Judge had opposed the transfer.Choosing of Justice Datta as the CJ of Bombay HC indicates that the Judge would get appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court sooner than later and would have a long innings to play as he is only 55 year-old. The HC judges retire at the age of 62 years and the SC Judges at 65 years.After readying the successor for Justice B P Dharmadhikari, the Collegium led by CJI Bobde decided to recommend to the Union government to transfer Justice Mohd Rafiq, CJ of Meghalaya HC, as Chief Justice of Orissa HC Justice Rafiq was appointed as CJ of Meghalaya in November last year.To fill the vacancy that would arise on the government accepting the recommendation to shift Justice Rafiq from Meghalaya HC to Orissa HC, the Collegium decided to recommend appointment of Allahabad HC Judge , Justice Biswanath Somadder (parent HC Calcutta), as the CJ of Meghalaya HC.