Chennai high court Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee has been transferred to Meghalaya.
The supreme court has recommended that Sanjib Banerjee, the current Chief Justice of the chennai high court, be transferred to the meghalaya High Court.
Sanjeev Banerjee, the second senior judge of the kolkata high court, became the 50th judge of the chennai high court on january 4, 2020. The five-judge apex court panel has recommended that he be transferred to the meghalaya high court, where he will retire on november 1, 2023.
Meanwhile, the chennai high court has recommended the appointment of allahabad high court Judge Muneshwar Bhandari.
In 2019, the supreme court Collegium recommended that Vijaya Kamalesh Tahilramani, then the Chief Justice of the chennai high court, be transferred to the meghalaya high court, the country's smallest court.
Tahilramani's request to reconsider this was not accepted and he resigned. The affair caused a stir in the judiciary.
Chennai high court Judge Sanjib Banerjee has also been transferred to the meghalaya High Court.
Advocates of the supreme court have given the actual record of this transfer. chennai high court Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee's frequent praises to chief minister MK stalin and the tamil Nadu government are said to have angered the Union government and Union ministers, including prime minister Modi.
Judge Bhandari, who is currently nominated as the new Chief Justice of the chennai high court, is from Rajasthan. He was transferred to allahabad high court in 2019, where he is serving as a senior judge. His term is scheduled to end on september 12, 2022.
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