SC Collegium Recommends Justice Rajiv Shakdher as Himachal Pradesh HC Chief Justice
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of Justice Rajiv Shakdher of the Delhi High Court as the Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
This decision was made by the Supreme Court Collegium led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud.
“Mr Justice Rajiv Shakdher was appointed as a Judge of the High Court on 11 April 2008 and ranks at Sl No 4 in the All India Seniority list of High Court Judges. He is one of the seniormost Judges in the country. The Collegium, therefore, recommends that Mr Justice Rajiv Shakdher be appointed as Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh in the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr Justice M S Ramachandra Rao to the High Court of Jharkhand, consequent upon the retirement of Dr Justice Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi,” the Collegium stated.
Justice Shakdher obtained his LLB degree from the Law Faculty, University of Delhi in 1987 and was enrolled as an advocate on November 19, 1987. He completed Chartered Accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 1987 and pursued an Advanced Course in Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London in 1994 as a Chevening Scholar.
He was designated a Senior Advocate in December 2006 and appointed an additional judge of the Delhi High Court on April 11, 2008. He was made a permanent judge of the High Court on October 17, 2011. In 2016, he was transferred to the Madras High Court, where he served until January 2018 before being transferred back to his original High Court, the Delhi High Court.
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