Madras High Court Chief Justice Tenders Resignation After Being Transferred to Meghalaya

Madras, September 7, 2019:

Displeased over the Supreme Court collegium’s decision to transfer her to Meghalaya High Court from the historic Madras High Court, Chief Justice VK Tahilramani on Friday tendered her resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind. She sent a copy of the resignation letter to CJI Ranjan Gogoi.

Justice Tahilramani was appointed as a judge of Bombay HC on June 26, 2001, at the age of 43. She became chief justice of Madras HC on August 12, 2018. Justices Tahilramani and Gita Mittal were the only women chief justices in the male-dominated 25 HCs.

Justice Tahilramani was to retire on October 2, 2020, which means she foregoes more than a year of chief justiceship, and a possible elevation to the SC by tendering her resignation.

Earlier, 2011-batch IAS officer, Kashish Mittal after he was posted to frontier state Arunachal Pradesh, ThePrint has reported.

According to the reports, Mittal was an AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territory)-cadre IAS officer, who was posted as additional principal secretary to NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar.

He reportedly forwarded his resignation after being transferred to Arunachal Pradesh, which he was unhappy with.

A source told ThePrint that he resigned as he thought the decision to transfer him to Arunachal Pradesh was “unfair”.

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