“No Substitute For Hardwork”: SC Judge Justice Maheshwari On His Last Working Day

The Supreme Court judge, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari emphasized on the importance of hard work on his last working day.

The judge was sitting on his ceremonial bench alongside CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha.

“There is no substitute for hard work…I started as a trial court lawyer. ‘Miss you’ carries with it a bit of sorrow, I say substitute it with ‘remember you’,” the judge remarked.

He continued by thanking the contributions of the bar, other judges, law clerks, and others, saying that none of his work at the Supreme Court would have been possible without teamwork.

“No individual can perform. I always say ‘we’ rather than ‘I’,” Justice Maheshwari added.

The Chief Justice of India discussed his long association with Justice Maheshwari, which dates back to their time as Allahabad High Court judges.

“He has been a gentleman, friendly judge. I don’t think if he would even remember when he last lost his temper,” the CJI stated.

About

Justice Maheshwari, who was born in Udaipur, Rajasthan, on May 15, 1958, was appointed as the Supreme Court judge on January 18, 2019.

His farewell is being planned for Friday as his last working day falls on Sunday.

Justice Maheshwari hails from a family of lawyers; his late father, R. C. Maheshwari, was a well-known civil side lawyer in Jodhpur, and his grandfather, Jagannath Kahalya, had practiced law in the Chittorgarh district.

After receiving a B.Sc. in physics from Maharaja’s College, Rajasthan University, Jaipur in 1977, he went on to earn an LLB from Jodhpur University in 1980 and was enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Rajasthan in 1981.

Before being elevated as a judge of the Rajasthan High Court on September 2, 2004, he practiced on both the original and appellate sides before the Rajasthan High Court and other subordinate courts.

Justice Maheshwari was then transferred to the Allahabad High Court, where he took his oath on July 19, 2014, and worked as a senior judge on the Lucknow bench beginning March 3, 2015. On February 24, 2016, he was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, and on February 12, 2018, he was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court.