The Center on Tuesday appointed Chief Justices of three High Courts – Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan – as really useful by the Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit on September 28.
Justice PB Varale of Bombay HC has been appointed as Chief Justice of Karnataka HC. The HC has had an appearing Chief Justice since July.
Justice Pankaj Mithal, who was the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh HC, has now been appointed because the Chief Justice of Rajasthan HC.
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey of J&Okay HC has been appointed because the Chief Justice of that HC. The Memorandum of Procedure, the doc that governs the method of appointment of judges to the upper judiciary, states that if a decide of an HC has lower than a 12 months to retire and is the senior-most decide of that HC , then the decide might be the guardian appointed chief justice of the HC solely. Justice Magrey is retiring on December 7.
On 28 September, the five-member collegium additionally comprising Justices DY Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Abdul Nazeer and KM Joseph really useful the appointment of Chief Justice of Orissa HC Justice S Muralidhar as Chief Justice of Madras HC . The collegium really useful the appointment of Justice Jaswant Singh, a decide of the Orissa High Court, because the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court.
Though all of the suggestions for contemporary appointment and switch had been made concurrently, the Center is but to switch Justice Muralidhar, whose guardian is HC Delhi HC and has a tenure of as much as 7 August 2023. As one of many senior-most judges of the HC, Justice Muralidhar is understood for his landmark judgments on civil liberties. In 2009, he was a part of the bench together with Justice AP Shah, which delivered a landmark judgment decriminalizing homosexuality. In 2010, Justice Muralidhar dominated that the workplace of the CJI was underneath the ambit of RTI.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
