Leaving with pride intact: Justice Kureshi
2 years, 9 months ago

Leaving with pride intact: Justice Kureshi

Hindustan Times  

Jaipur: Rajasthan high court chief justice Akil Kureshi on Saturday said he was leaving with his “pride intact” and considered the government’s “negative perception” about him as a certificate of independence. “As a judge of a constitutional court, whose most primary duty is protecting the rights of citizens, I consider it as a certificate of independence,” justice Kureshi said in an emotional farewell speech at the Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan high court. His reference was to former CJI Ranjan Gogoi, who mentioned in his book that justice Kureshi could not be appointed to the Madhya Pradesh high court due to a “negative perception” about his judicial orders in the government. Speaking on that disclosure, justice Kureshi said: “What is of greater significance to me is what is the perception of the judiciary, which I have not been officially communicated.” In 2018, the government did not agree to the collegium’s recommendation to appoint justice Kureshi as the Madhya Pradesh chief justice from the Bombay high court, to which he was transferred from the Gujarat high court, where he was the most senior judge.

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