The Center on Tuesday issued a notification transferring Justice MN Bhandari from the Allahabad High Court to the Madras High Court.
“In train of the ability conferred by clause (I) of Article 222 of the Constitution of India, the President, after session with the Chief Justice of India, is happy to switch Shri Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari, Judge of the High Court of Allahabad, as a Judge of the Madras High Court and to direct him to take cost of his workplace within the Madras High Court,” a notification from the Ministry of Law mentioned.
As the senior-most choose within the Madras HC, Justice Bhandari is prone to take over because the appearing Chief Justice. The switch got here after the federal government accepted the Supreme Court Collegium’s choice to switch Justice Sanjiv Banerjee, the Chief Justice of Madras HC, to the Meghalaya HC.
Justice Bhandari was appointed a choose of the Rajasthan HC in 2007. In March 2019, rejecting Justice Bhandari’s request for reconsideration, the SC Collegium advisable the switch of it from his father or mother High Court to the Allahabad HC “in the interest of better administration of justice”.
He was the appearing Chief Justice of the Allahabad HC for a while in June this 12 months. As per legislation ministry information, he’ll retire in September 2022.
On 16 September, the SC collegium advisable the switch of 17 judges to the HC, indicating a significant reshuffle. The collegium advisable switch of Justice Vivek Agarwal to Madhya Pradesh HC, Justice Ravinath Tilhari to Andhra Pradesh HC, Justices CD Singh and Yashwant Verma to Delhi HC, Justice Subhash Chand to Jharkhand HC and Justice Bhandari to Madras HC.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
