Madras High Court Chief Justice To Resign

Upset over transfer to Meghalaya

- Mohamed Imranullah S.

Madras High Court Chief Justice Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani, the senior-most High Court judge in the country, has decided to put in her papers in the wake of a decision taken by the Supreme Court Collegium (comprising top five judges) to transfer her from the chartered High Court to a relatively small High Court of Meghalaya.

She made her decision public on Friday night during a dinner hosted by six Madras High Court judges, who were made permanent recently.

The dinner party was held at the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy building here and was attended by almost all judges of the High Court, barring a few who had been deputed to the Madurai Bench.

Thanking the puisne judges for their cooperation ever since she took over as the Chief Justice on August 12 last year, Justice Tahilramani told them that she had discharged her duty without any fear or favour right from the time she assumed office as a judge of the Bombay High Court in June 2001.