CHENNAI: Four newly appointed judges of Madras high court were sworn in at the high court on Wednesday. With their induction, the total strength of the high court has increased from 56 to 60 as against sanctioned strength of 75. All four are advocates elevated directly from the Bar.
Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee administered the oath of office in a brief function held in the high court premises.
This apart, with the appointment of Sundaram Srimathi, the number of women judges in the court would go up to a record 14, highest in the country. D Bharatha Chakravarthy, R Vijayakumar, and Mohammed Shaffiq are the other three advocates sworn in as additional judges. Srimathi is a Trichy Government Law College product, and enrolled as advocate in October 1989.
Bharatha Chakravarthy, enrolled as an advocate on July 15, 1993. He specialised in the original, appellate and criminal sides of the high court.
In his 27 years of practise, he served as a public prosecutor for the union territory of Puducherry for the high court.
This apart, he represented public sector undertakings such as Puducherry Slum Clearance Board, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Veterinary Sciences, Puducherry, and Andhra Pradesh Power Development Company Limited.
Born on December 22, 1970 R Vijayakumar enrolled as an advocate on October 13, 1993. In his 28 years of practise, Vijayakumar specialised in civil, criminal, constitutional and service laws. Though he initially practised before the principal bench of the high court in Chennai, since August 2004, he shifted his practise to the Madurai bench of the court.
Mohammed Shaffiq is a taxation law specialist who has served as government pleader for taxes.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/four-new-judges-of-madras-high-court-assume-office/articleshow/87174190.cms
