New Delhi: With the President began issuing a nine-appointment warrant, including Senior Advocate PS Narasimha, as the Supreme Court Judge, the person appointed directly from the bar in this batch would be the chairman in this Indian category.
Justice S M Sikri is the first to raise justice after being appointed directly from the bar.
Scrime Scrim AS Lalit will successfully present CJI N V Ramana, which retires on August 26 next year.
In our report published in the August 26 edition of TI, we mistakenly said that Narasimha would be the first of the bar appointed as a SC judge who would go to become CJI.
Narasimha is the ninth of the bar to be immediately appointed as Judge SC.
What was previously: Sikri, S C Roy, Kuldip Singh, N Santosh Hegde, R F Nariman, Lalit, L Rao and Indu Malhotra.
Justice Sikri was appointed as a SC judge on February 3, 1964 and became CJI on January 22, 1971.
He had a 27-month term and retired on April 25, 1973.
Born in Lahore and a first-generation lawyer, Sikri has determined to practice in Lahore High Court 1930 After getting a title from the University of Cambridge.
After the partition, he became an advocate of General Punjab, a post he held for 13 years until his appointment to the judge.
He previously rejected JudgeShip in the Punjab High Court.
S C Roy is the second to be appointed as Judge SC directly from the bar.
The nephew of Bengal Bengal Bengal’s famous Bengal B C C Roy, he practiced mainly at Calcutta HC and had refused JudgeShip in HC in 1957 to prevent allegations of nepotism due to cm.
However, when Cji Sikri offered him Judge SC, Roy accepted it and took an oath as an Apex court judge on July 19, 1971.
He was in line with Cji in 1977 for more than three months.
But within four months of being a SC judge, he suffered several heart attacks and died on November 12, 1971.
It took another 17 years for the authorities to zero on the next direct appointment of the bar at Kuldip Singh, who took an oath as a Judge SC on December 14, 1988 .
On the same day as justice was Ahmadi took an oath but before Singh justice and then became CJI.
Singh justice retires number two and has constant friction with Ahmadi justice.
Judge Singh felt that he was robbed from the CJI post at that time the chairman of Judge R S Pathak, who scheduled the oath of Ahmadi’s judge in front of Justice Singh.
The same friction will be witnessed between Misra’s and Justice Judge J Chelammeswar a few decades later on a similar problem – justice Misra took an oath in front of Chelammeswar Justice on October 10, 2011 and then became CJI while the last retired.
The next direct appointment of the bar occurs after hiatus more than a decade.
N Santosh Hegde is an Indian general lawyer when he received an invitation since Cji A Anand and became SC judge on January 8, 1999.
He had a short tenure of three years and six months.
Against four of the bars appointed as Judge SC in 64 years, as many as five were appointed (including Narasimha which guaranteed that the appointment had not yet been a problem) from the bar in the next seven years: Justice RF Nariman (July 7, 2014 August 12 2021); SC Judge SC – Justice Lalit (August 13, 2014) and Justice L N Rao (May 13, 2016); And the first woman of the bar that will be immediately appointed as Judge SC – Indu Malhotra (April 27, 2018 to March 13, 2021).
Narasimha is the latest to switch from the blade to the bench and is expected to have a working period of more than a year as CJI in 2027 after retiring Justice BV Nagaratha, which is likely to be CJI’s first woman, although a little more a month.