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Siriram was appointed as Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on 21 June 2013 and confirmed as Permanent Judge of the Bombay High Court on 2 March 2016. The Centre notified the appointment of K. R. Shiriram as Chief Justice of Madras High Court on September 21, 2024. [5] [6]
The Supreme Court serves as the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India and consists of 33 judges headed by the Chief Justice of India. [1] The High Courts are the top judicial bodies in individual states, controlled and managed by Chief Justices of the respective courts.
From 1817 to 1862, the Supreme Court of Madras was opposite the Chennai Beach railway station.From 1862 to 1892, the High Court was also housed there. The present buildings were officially inaugurated on 12 July 1892, when the then Madras Governor, Beilby, Baron Wenlock, handed over the key to then Chief Justice Sir Arthur Collins.
Sanjiv Khanna, the incumbent chief justice of India, since 11 November 2024 The chief justice of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In ...
He was appointed as a Judge of the Madras High Court in the year 2013. [2] On 24 May 2024, he was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court after the retirement of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala. On 18 July 2024, he was appointed as a Judge of Supreme Court of India.
Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala (born 24 May 1962) is an Indian Judge.He is a former Chief Justice of Madras High Court and a former Acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. [1] He has also served as Judge of Bombay High Court. [2] On 28 May 2023 he took charge as the 52nd Chief Justice of the prestigious Madras High Court.
High courts are headed by a chief justice. The chief justices rank fourteenth (within their respective states) and seventeenth (outside their respective states) on the Indian order of precedence. The number of judges in a court is decided by dividing the average institution of main cases during the last five years by the national average, or ...
Muthuswamy served as a judge of the Madras High Court from 1877 till his death in 1895, acting as the Chief Justice for three months in 1893. He advocated social reform and campaigned in support of women's education, widow remarriage and the legal recognition of sambandham, collaborating closely with C. V. Runganada Sastri and R. Raghunatha Rao.