MUMBAI: The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of Bombay high court Judge Justice RV More to Meghalaya HC.The collegium on February 12 also decided to and recommended the transfer of two other HC Judges to different high courts. The other two are Justices S Muralidhar from Delhi HC to Punjab & Haryana and Justice Ravi Malimath from Karnataka HC to Uttarakhand HC.The SC issued a statement on the transfer. Justice More is the second senior most puisne (non Chief Justice) Judge in the Bombay HC at present after Justice B P Dharmadhikari, following the resignation last week, of seniormost Judge S C Dharmadhikari.The transfer will take place once a notification is issued.Justice More has been a Judge of Bombay HC for almost 14 years since his appointment in September 2006. Among his significant judgments include the one where as a bench with Justice Bharati Dangre, he upheld the validity of the Maratha reservation in Maharashtra, while bringing down the quota from 16 percent in the Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) Act of 2018 to 12 percent for admission to educational institutions and 13 for public service jobs.The SC earlier this month did not stay the Maratha order, saying it would pass orders only after hearing all sides, posted it for hearing to March 17.His most recent significant order included one on January 15 while heading a division bench with Justice SV Tavade, in which he directed shifting of HDIL promoters Rakesh Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan accused in multi-crore Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank case, from Arthur Road jail to their residence, with round the clock police guards, at their expense, to enable sale of their assets so that bank depositors get their money back.The order was in a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a lawyer Sarosh Damania seeking that the lower court be restrained from hearing bail pleas of Wadhawans till money defrauded is recovered, for a committee to be appointed to oversee auction of accused’s properties and cooperation of accused in sale of assets. The Wadhawans said their constitutional right to bail cannot be restrained and sought bail to help liquidate their assets.The HC bench directed that lower court cannot entertain their bail plea till further orders but directed that both the Wadhawans, father and son, “would remain in custody with two guards each at their respective residences’’ and assist with sale of assets.The Supreme Court On January 16 stayed the order of Wadhawans’ house custody but not of appointment of committee for sale of assets of the accused.Justice More, 60, hails from Khatau in Satara district of Maharashtra. Having graduated from Kolhapur and Sangli colleges, he won a scholarship and also did his masters in law from Mumbai university.He enrolled as an Advocate in September, 1983 and joined the chamber of former Chief Justice of Madras high court, A.P. Shah practicing mainly on the Appellate Side of High Court of Bombay.One of the leading appellate side counsel Prasad Dhakephalkar said,”It will be with regret to see Justice More transferred.’’Justice More was on a division bench with Justice Ranjana Desai in February 2011 to confirm the death penalty for Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Kasab for the November 26, 2008 terror attack on Mumbai. Kasab was finally executed on November 21, 2012.