15 new judges join Madras HC

CHENNAI: Chief Justice of Madras High Court S K Kaul administered the oath of office to 15 newly-appointed judges to the high court recently. The strength of the HC has now gone up from 39 to 54, as against the total strength of 75. Nine lawyers, V Parthiban, R Subramanian, M Govindraj, M Sundar, R Suresh Kumar, J Nisha Banu, MS Ramesh, SM Subramaniam and Anita Sumanth were the ones sworn in. Similarly, AM Basheer Ahamed, T Ravindran, S Baskaran, P Velmurugan, G Jayachandran, CV Karthikeyan were sworn in in the cadre of District Judge. Advocate General of Tamil Nadu, R Muthukumaraswamy said, "This occasion is a matter of pride, as this is the second such occasion where such large number of judges were sworn-in to this high court."