Dont Discuss about my transfer or resignation : Tahilramani

Even as legal professionals practicing inside the Madras High Court as well as its Madurai Bench stood resolutely behind her, Chief Justice of Madras HighCourt  Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani on Monday refused to explicit any opinion on her proposed switch to the High Court of Meghalaya and her consequent resignation.

When approached for her perspectives on the issue, Justice Tahilramani stated: “I do not want to make any feedback or speak the matter. Kindly excuse me.”

The Supreme Court collegium, comprising top five judges of the court, had decided to switch her to Meghalaya ‘inside the hobby of better administration of justice’ and the Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court Ajay Kumar Mittal to the Madras High Court.

When the choice become communicated to her, she sent a representation on September 2 seeking reconsideration of her transfer. The collegium took up the illustration on September 3 and concluded that it might no longer be possible to accede to her request. It reiterated its August 28 recommendation for transferring her to Meghalaya and forwarded the notion to the President’s office in addition to the Centre for issuing necessary orders. It became most effective thereafter, the Chief Justice selected to put in her papers.

Consequently, she chose now not to preside over the



courtroom court cases on Monday while a section of attorneys led by using senior suggest R.Vaigai staged an indication in opposition to the transfer.

The protesting lawyers insisted upon withdrawal of the advice made through the collegium and requested the Chief Justice to withdraw her resignation. The legal professionals’ associations in Chennai as well as within the Madurai Bench additionally decided to abstain from the court proceedings on Tuesday traumatic withdrawal of the transfer proposal.

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They argued that Justice Tahilramani being the senior-maximum High Court judge within the u . S ., with 18 years of enjoy, must now not be transferred to one of the smallest High Court. The attorneys additionally puzzled the motive behind making  Chief Justices swap their positions without disclosing particular motives.

Justice Tahilramani had disclosed her choice to resign to different judges of the Madras High Court on Saturday at a dinner party hosted by way of six judges, who had been made everlasting lately. Then, she reportedly made a speech approximately having served the judiciary real to her sense of right and wrong ever in view that she became a judge of Bombay High Court in 2001.

She was multiplied as Chief Justice of Madras High Court in August 2018 and was due to retire from service in October 2020.