Supreme Court to get new judge as Centre approves elevation of Karnataka HC Chief Justice Prasanna Varale
Supreme Court of India," Arjun Ram Meghwal, Union Minister of State for Law & Justice said in a post on X. Justice Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale earlier served as the judge of the Bombay High Court for 14 years before his transfer to the Karnataka High Court as Chief Justice in October 2022.
Currently, he is the only High Court Chief Justice belonging to the Scheduled Caste community and he claims to be born in a family “blessed by Dr B R Ambedkar". “I was fortunate to be born in a family that was blessed by Dr B R Ambedkar.
I am in this noble institution all because of the great scholar and political thinker," The Indian Express quoted Justice Varale as saying in his farewell speech from the Bombay High Court. “Otherwise a small person from a remote area (referring to his grandfather) could not have even dreamt of going to Aurangabad, and then his future generations taking up the legal profession and adorning the seat of a judge of the High Court," the senior judge added.
Justice Varale is well-known for initiating suo-moto cases in the public interest and pulled up Maharashtra and Karnataka governments several times for their conduct. Under his supervision, the Karnataka High Court took cognizance of several news reports to ask difficult questions to the administration and even penalized the erring officials.
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