On the day of the announcement of a surgical strike across the LoC, the government carried out another surgical operation that made the people wonder whether the frosty equation between the government and the judiciary was beginning to thaw. It issued warrants of appointment of 15 judges to the Madras High Court and five additional judges to the Kerala High Court. More appointments are going to be cleared in the next few days. It also cleared a handful of other appointments and transfers of three high court judges.