Madras Excessive Court docket Performing Chief Justice T. Raja (fourth from proper), Justice S. Vaidyanathan (third from left) and Justice R. Mahadevan (third from proper) with the newly appointed judges (from left to proper) Justices Ok. Govindarajan Thilakavadi, R. Kalaimathi, P.B. Balaji, L. Victoria Gowri and Ok.Ok. Ramakrishnan after their swearing-in ceremony held in Chennai on Tuesday.
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Madras Excessive Court docket Performing Chief Justice (ACJ) T. Raja on Tuesday administered oath of workplace to L. Victoria Gowri, P.B. Balaji, Ok.Ok. Ramakrishnan, R. Kalaimathi and Ok. Govindarajan Thilakavadi as further judges of the Excessive Court docket for a interval of two years in the identical order of seniority in accordance with their presidential warrant of appointment.
Ms. Gowri took the oath of office even because the Supreme Court docket was listening to petitions filed by a bunch of advocates from Chennai opposing her elevation on the bottom of getting delivered “hate speeches” towards spiritual minorities. The apex court dismissed the cases, on deserves, minutes after she accomplished taking oath.
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Even because the oath taking ceremony was going down inside a gathering corridor within the further library constructing of the Excessive Court docket between 10:40 am and 12 midday, some Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist) cadres gathered outdoors the court docket campus and raised slogans towards her elevation as a choose of the court docket.
In his welcome tackle after the administration of oath, Advocate Common R. Shunmugasundaram stated, Justice Gowri was born on Might 21, 1973 and obtained enrolled with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in 1995 after finishing her commencement from the Authorities Regulation School in Madurai.
She practiced on the courts in Karur and Kanniyakumari districts earlier than shifting to the Madurai Bench of the Excessive Court docket in 2008. She was appointed as a Central Authorities Senior Standing Counsel in 2015 and served as Particular Public Prosecutor (in-charge) for Central Bureau of Investigation from September 2020 to Might 2022.
She additionally served because the Assistant Solicitor Common (subsequently redesignated as Deputy Solicitor Common) within the Madurai Bench until her elevation. “After 27 long years of practice, she has been elevated to adorn the Bench of this prestigious court,” the A-G stated whereas introducing her to the gathering.
Equally, Justice Balaji was born on April 11, 1973 and studied at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary Faculty in Chennai. He graduated from the Madras Regulation School and enrolled with the Bar Council in 1996 earlier than becoming a member of the workplace of his father P.B. Ramanujam. He had 26 years of standing within the Bar.
Justice Ramakrishnan, born on Might 27, 1973 was a junior of Justice M.M. Sundresh, now a choose of the Supreme Court docket, through the latter’s stint as a lawyer. He had practised earlier than the Madurai Bench of the Excessive Court docket for 16 years and was appointed as Further Public Prosecutor in 2018.
Justice Kalaimathi was born on April 18, 1968 and holds a Grasp’s diploma in regulation. Pursuant to her research, she entered Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service and obtained appointed as Further District Munsif in Villupuram. After climbing the judicial ladder over time, she served final because the District Decide in Salem.
Justice Ok. Govindarajan Thilakavadi was born on April 2, 1966. She entered judicial service in 1995 as a Judicial Justice of the Peace in Cuddalore and went on to change into the Principal District Decide of the identical district. Thereafter, she assumed cost as Registrar (District Judiciary) within the Madras Excessive Court docket until her elevation.
With the appointment of 5 new judges, the working energy of the Excessive Court docket had elevated from 52 to 57 as towards the sanctioned energy of 75 judges. The variety of girls judges within the court docket additionally elevated to an all time excessive of 14 after the induction of the three new girls judges.
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