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A thirteen to celebrate: Madras HC to have most women judges among high courts

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: The Chief Justice of the Madras High Court AP Sahi on Thursday administered oath to 10 new additional judges including four women judges. With this, its total strength has increased from 53 to 63, of which 13 are women judges — the most among high courts in the country. The total sanctioned strength

Uttarakhand HC reprimands UPCL fo its GM owing power dues worth lakhs.

Source – outlookindia.com The Uttarakhand High Court has reprimanded the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Ltd for charging a nominal sum per month from its General Manager as electricity bill even though he owes the corporation dues worth lakhs of rupees.  Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Alok Kumar on Wednesday sought a clarification from the UPCL on

FIR registered against suspended judge in Jharkhand

Source: devdiscourse.com A day after theĀ Jharkhand High CourtĀ suspended Dumka Principal District and Sessions Judge Om Prakash Singh for allegedly flouting forest laws, theĀ state policeĀ on Saturday registered an FIR against him. The court had suspended Singh on the basis of a vigilance report. On the basis of the report received from the High Court Registrar (Vigilance)

Four new Supreme Court judges to take oath on Monday, strength to reach 34

Source: dnaindia.com Four new Supreme Court justices will take oath on Monday, taking the strength of India’s highest court to 34. The Centre had on September 18 notified the appointment of four new judges to the Supreme Court.  Justices V Ramasubramanian, Krishna Murari, S Ravindra Bhat and Hrishikesh Roy – all four chief justices of

Tahilramani case: To protect High Courtsā€™ independence, SC must state reasons for judgesā€™ transfers

Source: scroll.in On August 28, the Supreme Court collegium consisting of five senior-most judges recommended the transfer of Madras High Court Chief Justice VK Tahilramani to the Meghalaya High Court. This recommendation was part of a series of appointments and transfers effected by the Supreme Court collegium in the last week of August. But none

Malankara church case: SCā€‰rebukes Kerala HC judge over ā€˜indisciplineā€™

Source: hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on a judge of the Kerala high court for issuing orders purportedly in contravention to the top courtā€™s direction in the Malankara church dispute case. It took strong exception to the HCā€™s tinkering of its 2017 verdict on right to conduct administration and prayers in