5 details about Delhi excessive court docket’s CJ Justice Manmohan | Newest Information India

The five-member collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, not too long ago met and determined to advocate Justice Manmohan’s title because the choose of the highest court docket of the nation.

The collegium decision highlighted that the Supreme Court docket presently has just one choose from the Delhi excessive court docket — CJI Khanna — following the latest retirements of justices S Ravindra Bhat (September 2023), Sanjay Kishan Kaul (December 2023), and Hima Kohli (September 2024). Traditionally, the Delhi excessive court docket has contributed three to 4 judges to the Supreme Court docket at any given time, making justice Manmohan’s elevation well timed to revive this illustration.

Listed here are 5 details about Justice Manmohan.

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• Justice Manmohan was born in Delhi in 1962. He attended Fashionable College on Barakhamba Street for his schooling. He graduated from Hindu Faculty of the College of Delhi with a B.A. (Hons.) in historical past. He attended the College of Delhi’s Campus Legislation Centre and graduated with an LL.B. in 1987. He joined the Delhi Bar Council as an advocate the identical 12 months.
• He principally practiced civil, felony, constitutional, tax, arbitration, trademark, and repair litigation within the Supreme Court docket of India and the Excessive Court docket of Delhi. He served as a senior panel advocate for the Indian authorities in each the Supreme Court docket of India and the Delhi Excessive Court docket.
• On January 18, 2003, the Delhi Excessive Court docket designated him as a senior advocate. He dealt with quite a few important issues in his personal enterprise, such because the Dabhol Energy Firm case, the Hyderabad Nizam Jewelry Belief case, the Claridges Lodge dispute, the Modi household, the Gujarat Ambuja Cement gross sales tax difficulty, and the Fatehpur Sikri encroachment case.
• He was appointed as a further choose of the Delhi excessive court docket in March 2008. He turned a everlasting choose the following 12 months.
• He was sworn in because the appearing chief justice of the excessive court docket in November 2023. He was appointed because the chief justice of the court docket in September this 12 months.