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President's assent to promotion of 11 high court judges
By IANS,
Apr 20, 2007 - 7:15:01 PM
New Delhi, April 20 - President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has given his assent to the promotion of 11 high court judges, including Delhi High Court Additional Judge S.L. Bhayana, whom he elevated as regular judge of the same court, despite his earlier reservations.
A law ministry statement Friday said the promoted judges include Justice Jasti Chelameswar of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, who has been appointed the chief justice of the Gauhati High Court.
Six additional judges of the Delhi High Court and four of the Bombay High Court have been confirmed as regular judges of the same courts, the ministry said.
The appointments would take effect from the day the judges would assume their new charges, it added.
The six judges of the Delhi High Court who were confirmed as regular judges include Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra, Justice S.L. Bhayana, Justice Jatinder Mohan Malik, Justice Reva Khetrapal, Justice Sri Niwas Aggarwal and Justice Pravesh Kumar Bhasin.
The six additional judges of the Bombay High Court who have been elevated include Justice Vasanti Anil Naik, Justice Jagmohansingh Hakamsingh Bhatia, Justice Ravindra Chandrakant Chavan and Justice Roshan Shamim Dalvi.
The elevation and subsequent confirmation of Justice Bhayana had come under cloud after he, as a trial court judge, acquitted all the accused including senior Haryana Congress leader Venod Sharma's son Manu Sharma and his accomplice and former Rajya Sabha member D.P Yadav's son Vikas Yadav besides corporate executive Amarjit Singh Gill in the case related to the murder of Delhi model Jessica Lall.
Later, while convicting the three, a Delhi High Court bench of Justices R.S. Sodhi and P.K. Bhasin had termed Bhayana's judgment as 'perverse'.
The president had returned with queries the file proposing elevation of Justice Bhayana as a regular judge of the high court.
While clearing Justice Bhayana's elevation later, the apex court collegium had held that upturning of a judge's ruling by the superior court couldn't be held as ground to stop his promotion.
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