India, Sept. 1 -- The Supreme Court collegium's decision to recommend Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal as the next chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court amid an escalating controversy over Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma's continuance as the acting chief there was accompanied by a second, seemingly routine resolution that could prove more significant in the immediate term: his transfer from the Chhattisgarh High Court to Rajasthan.

The twin resolutions, passed on Monday evening, were not merely a matter of procedural sequencing. The separate transfer recommendation is understood to have been driven by the need for an early change at the top of the Rajasthan High Court, amid the controversy surrounding its acting chief justice Sharma, who ...