SC collegium recommends elevation of justices S Muralidhar, Hima Kohli as chief justices or Orissa and Telangana high courts

OVERVIEW 

• According to the apex court webside, the Collegium, in its meeting held on December 14, has also approved the proposal to elevate Delhi HC judge Justice Hima Kohli as Chief Justice of Telangana High Court, Calcutta HC judge Justice Sanjib Banerjee as Chief Justice of Madras High Court.

• The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the elevation of Dr. S Muralidhar as Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and Justice Hima Kohli as Chief Justice of Telangana High Court.

•  Both Justice Muralidhar and Justice Hima Kohli are from Delhi High Court.

BRIEF BACKGROUND OF JUSTICE MURALIDHAR

• Justice Muralidhar started his law practice in the year 1984 in Chennai. Three years later, in 1987, he shifted to the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court. He was active as a lawyer for the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee and later was its member for two terms.

• In May 2006, he was appointed as a judge of the Delhi High Court. In the year 2003, he was awarded PhD by the Delhi University.

• During his tenure as a judge at the Delhi High Court, Justice Muralidhar got rid of the convention of judges being addressed as "Lordships". Inter alia, he has been on several important benches, including the full bench in 2010 that ruled in favour disclosing how many Supreme Court judges had declared their assets, in a RTI.

• He was a part of the High Court bench that first legalized homosexuality in the 2009 Naz Foundation case.

• He was transferred to Punjab and Haryana High Court in February 22020.

BRIEF BACKGROUND OF JUSTICE HIMA KOHLI

•  Justice Hima Kohli got enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi.

•  She was appointed as an Additional Judge of the High Court of Delhi on May 29, 2006 and took oath as a permanent Judge on 29.08.2007.

•  She was appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee of the Delhi Judicial Academy from 11.3.2020.

TRANSFER OF JUDGES

•    Chief Justice of Telangana High Court, Justice RS Chauhan to Uttarakhand High Court
•    Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court, Justice JK Maheshwari to Sikkim High Court
•    Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, Justice Mohammad Rafiq to Madhya Pradesh High Court
•    Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court, Justice AK Goswami to Andhra Pradesh High Court
•    Justice Sanjay Yadav of Madhya Pradesh High Court to Allahabad High Court
•    Justice Rajesh Bindal of Jammu & Kashmir High Court to Calcutta High Court
•    Justice Vineet Kothari of Madras High Court to Gujarat High Court
•    Justice Joymalya Bagchi of Calcutta High Court to Andhra Pradesh High Court
•    Justice Satish Chandra Sharma of Madhya Pradesh High Court to Karnataka High Court.

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