Victoria Gowri

Acting Chief Justice T. Raja administers oath of office to her along with four others at a ceremony held at the High Court buildings.

However, in the meantime, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijju tweeted that the Centre had cleared the appointment of 13 additional judges to three different High Courts and the list included the name of Ms. They also requested the collegium to reconsider its recommendation and followed it up with two cases filed in the Supreme Court on Monday against the proposed elevation. The Ministry also notified the Presidential warrant. Raja on Tuesday administered the oath of office to L. Chandrachud agreed to list the cases for hearing before the appropriate Bench on Tuesday. Victoria Gowri as an additional judge of the court even as the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear petitions

Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea seeking to restrain lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri from taking oath as a judge of the Madras ...

The Supreme Court dismissed pleas challenging the appointment of advocate LC Victoria Gowri as a judge in the Madras High Court as she took oath as an ...

They referred to one of Victoria Gowri's interviews, hosted by the RSS in 2018, wherein she termed Christianity as "white terror” and had made a similar “distasteful diatribe” against Christians. The lawyers alleged that it reflected her “regressive views” and “deep-rooted religious bigotry”, thus making her “unfit to be appointed as judge of the High Court”. The top court's decision after Gowri was sworn in as a judge of the Madras HC.

While the Supreme Court is seized of the matter related to the plea to restrain lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri from taking oath as a judge of the ...

[High Court](/topic/high-court) Bar association opposed the [Supreme Court](/topic/supreme-court) collegium's recommendation to elevate advocate Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri for judgeship at the Madras HC. The Supreme Court decided to hear on Tuesday a plea for restraining lawyer Gowri from taking oath as a judge of the Madras [High Court](/topic/high-court). Sudha Ramalingam, another top lawyer said that just in case Gowri took oath ahead of the expected SC direction, then impeachment is the only Constitutional process to remove her from office.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu News Live Updates Today, February 7, 2023: Acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, T Raja, administered the oath of office to ...

[was opposed by a section of lawyers.](https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/bjp-victoria-gowri-madras-hc-addl-judge-8427776/) They pointed to her previous association with the [BJP](https://indianexpress.com/about/bjp/) and alleged instances of “hate speech” by her. By the time it was over, the [ apex court dismissed the petitions against her](https://indianexpress.com/article/india/supreme-court-victoria-gowri-madras-hc-judge-8428848/). [was a short while ago sworn in as additional judge of the Madras High Court.](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/victoria-gowri-madras-hc-judge-sc-hearing-8428587/) At the time of the swearing-in, the Supreme Court was hearing petitions against her elevation to the high court.

The bench said it is only "conjectures and surmises" that the material (against her) was not available to the Collegium. Even the consultee judges would ...

We are on the 7th today…If any member of the Collegium had any reservation or anything, they would have taken it up.” You presume they are not aware of the antecedents of a candidate before they make up their minds,” said Justice Gavai. Justice Khanna said the fact of the matter was that all these materials must have been known to the Collegium. We have to presume that they have the knowledge of the facts,” said Justice Gavai. “There have been cases where people with political backgrounds have taken oath as judges of the Supreme Court and High Court,” said Justice Khanna. They argued that this material “may not have been available” to the Collegium before it went ahead with the recommendation.

In an unlikely turn of events, the Supreme Court is holding a sitting at 9.15 am today to hear the petition challenging appointment of advocate Victoria ...

We mention the matter and matter is listed today and then notification of appointment was out.. Someone will pull out some information and say that it was not before collegium.. In a rare case this info may not be before the Collegium ... Additional judge she is and appointment as permanent judge is still pending ... This will be like showing lack of faith and respect in the collegium this may be a rare case... An unverified Twitter account allegedly belonging to Gowri claimed in its bio that she was the National General Secretary of BJP Mahila Morcha. we then again mentioned and hearing was advanced When collegium is still looking at it.. collegium can recall it. Thus, she is unfit to take oath. but never ever have I let it influence

A group of Tamil Nadu lawyers objected to the Supreme Court Collegium's recommendation last month for Victoria Gowri's elevation, citing her prior ties to ...

While they wrote to the Supreme Court Collegium and the President of India, another group of lawyers based in Madurai submitted a letter in her support, praising how hard she worked as a woman lawyer. [objected to the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendation](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/tn-lawyers-protest-to-president-collegium-against-bid-to-appoint-gowri-as-hc-judge-8420875/) last month for Gowri’s elevation, citing her prior ties to the [BJP](https://indianexpress.com/about/bjp/) and purported instances of hate speech, with YouTube links to video interviews and articles published for ‘Organiser’. [the Supreme Court was hearing petitions against her elevation to the high court.](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/gowri-takes-oath-in-high-court-today-supreme-court-hears-plea-against-appointment-8428018/) By the time the swearing-in was over, the hearing before the Supreme Court had already dismissed the petitions against her.

While the CJI orally stated on February 6 that the 'developments' were brought to the Collegium's attention after its January 17 recommendation for Gowri's ...

Senior advocate Anand Grover, also for petitioners, submitted that the IB may not have “enclosed” the “full information” about Ms. Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, for petitioners, indicated on Tuesday how the government had taken the trouble to unearth the social media posts of Mr. Chandrachud orally stated in open court that these “developments” were brought to the attention of the Collegium headed by him after it had “formulated” its January 17 recommendation for her appointment as judge. It was not that the Collegium was not aware. The Collegium resolution flags the adverse comments of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) about Mr. Gowri’s appointment on the ground that she had made public utterances on social media amounting to “hate speech”, Chief Justice of India D.Y.

What we need is an appointments process that genuinely safeguards judicial independence from executive dominance.

But taking a step back from the specific actors in this drama, it is important to locate the roots of the problem in the structure of our judicial appointments process. When, however, the appointments body (the collegium), the body for the constitution of benches (the chief justice’s office), and the judicial review body (the Supreme Court) are all effectively one and the same, but trying to play different and functionally independent roles, correction becomes very difficulty. However, here is the problem: whatever the formal character of the collegium’s recommendation, it is a recommendation made by the three senior-most judges of the Supreme Court, the legal challenge to which now has to go before two or three of their own junior colleagues (as happened in this case). Leaving aside the question of whether alleged hate speech is a question of suitability or eligibility, this is a correct position, but once again, it depends on the question of suitability having been fully considered during the selection process. – Furthermore, the Chief Justice of India, who heads the collegium, is also the master of the roster, and therefore will constitute the bench that will hear the challenge. In that sense, it is somewhat like judicial evasion: the court’s failure to decide politically critical cases is problematic from a rule of law perspective, but it is more than that: it is problematic because status quo directly benefits the political executive. Once again, the fall-out of this is asymmetric: given that the government retains the power of formal appointment, when it approves of a candidate, it can rush the process through (as happened in the present case). One cannot entirely blame them: at the very least, this was an extremely embarrassing situation for all parties concerned, an embarrassment that – once again – is directly traceable to the collegium’s structural opacity. This not only has transparency costs, but also, the costs are asymmetrical: it is but obvious that where the government approves of a particular candidate, it can simply withhold relevant information from the collegium (indeed, this is the only possible implication from the Chief Justice’s observations yesterday). One striking feature about this case is that, apparently, the collegium (in this case, the top three judges of the Supreme Court) was unaware of L. These facts would then have been within the knowledge of the selection bodies (the Senate in the United States, and judicial appointment commissions in South Africa and Kenya). However, there are two constitutional concerns that have become evident through the course of this controversy, and which speak directly to the question of judicial independence.

Law Minister Kiren Rijiju had tweeted a list of 13 names of advocates, including that of Ms. Gowri, and judicial officers who have been cleared for High ...

Ms. Gowri in the next 24 hours came shortly after Law Minister Kiren Rijiju tweeted a list of 13 names of advocates, including that of Ms. Sanjiv Khanna as Associate Judge on the Bench. The Supreme Court will hear petitions challenging the appointment of advocate Victoria Gowri as Madras High Court judge today. The Bench is now likely to be headed by CJI D.Y. on February 7 at the Madras HC.

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Victoria Gowri: सुप्रीम कोर्ट का कहना है कि वह कॉलेजियम को विक्टोरिया गौरी से संबंधित अपनी ...

याचिका में विक्टोरिया की पात्रता को लेकर सवाल उठाए गए थे जिसमें उनकी भाजपा से संबद्धता और पूर्व में कथित तौर पर मुस्लिम व ईसाई समुदाय के खिलाफ दिए गए बयानों को आधार बनाया गया था। याचिका मद्रास हाई कोर्ट की वरिष्ठ वकील अन्ना मैथ्यू, सुधा रामलिंगम और डी. सुप्रीम कोर्ट कॉलेजियम ने 17 जनवरी को गौरी को मद्रास हाई कोर्ट का न्यायाधीश नियुक्त करने की सिफारिश सरकार को भेजी थी। मद्रास हाई कोर्ट के तीन वरिष्ठ वकीलों ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट में याचिका दाखिल कर विक्टोरिया गौरी को मद्रास हाई कोर्ट का न्यायाधीश नियुक्त करने का विरोध किया था। Victoria Gowri: सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने मद्रास उच्च न्यायालय की अतिरिक्त न्यायाधीश के रूप में वकील लक्ष्मण चंद्रा विक्टोरिया गौरी की नियुक्ति के खिलाफ याचिका पर विचार करने से इनकार कर दिया। साथ ही सर्वोच्च अदालत ने न्यायाधीश के रूप में विक्टोरिया गौरी के शपथ समारोह पर रोक लगाने से भी इनकार कर दिया।

Victoria Gowri : विक्टोरिया गौरी का नाम काफी चर्चा में है। मद्रास की सीनियर वकील को हाई कोर्ट ...

मद्रास हाईकोर्ट के न्यायाधीश के रूप में एडवोकेट एल विक्टोरिया गौरी की नियुक्ति को ...

जब एक वकील ने उनकी नियुक्ति को चुनौती देते हुए एक रिट याचिका दायर की तो गौहाटी हाईकोर्ट ने एक अंतरिम आदेश के माध्यम से निर्देश दिया कि श्रीवास्तव के लिए राष्ट्रपति के नियुक्ति वारंट को प्रभावी नहीं किया जाना चाहिए. इस केस में सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने के.एन श्रीवास्तव की नियुक्ति को खारिज कर दिया था. वरिष्ठ अधिवक्ता राजू रामचंद्रन ने विक्टोरिया गौरी की नियुक्ति को इस आधार पर चुनौती दी थी कि उन्होंने धार्मिक अल्पसंख्यकों (Religious Minority) के खिलाफ नफरत फैलाने वाले भाषण दिए हैं. सुप्रीम कोर्ट के इतिहास में हाई कोर्ट के न्यायाधीश की नियुक्ति को रद्द करने का केवल एक ही उदाहरण है. हालांकि, इस अहम घटना को देखते हुए एक सवाल ये भी है कि क्या पहले कभी भी सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने हाईकोर्ट के जज की नियुक्ति को खारिज किया है? Supreme Court: सुप्रीम कोर्ट मंगलवार (7 फरवरी) को वकील लक्ष्मण चंद्र विक्टोरिया गौरी की मद्रास हाईकोर्ट में जज के तौर पर नियुक्ति को चुनौती देने वाली याचिका पर सुनवाई करेगा.

Gowri was sworn in as Madras HC additional judge Tuesday, in an appointment that has been fraught with controversy over her political views and alleged ...

The speeches and activities pursuant to the politics must find a place in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) report. “My brothers and sisters of Islam, all is well,” she said in that video. Later in the interview, she speaks about a Bharatanatyam performance at an event organised by a Christian organisation. “Her association with the BJP is being politicised. She was put in charge of the Kerala unit of the BJP’s Mahila Morcha on 8 October 2010 and eventually went on to become the national secretary of the women’s wing. Her family has been associated with the BJP for generations.” “Holding a post in a party is not a bar for being considered to be a high court judge,” advocate J. Gowri has been associated with the BJP since her college days. But Gowri, whose family has long been associated with the BJP, also has her share of supporters. “But having strong personal views and propagating it actively may be a factor which is taken into account for selecting an unbiased person to earn respectability for the post.” “Recently, the Collegium headed by CJI clarified that before appointment, one’s political beliefs should not stand in the way of consideration,” former Madras High Court K. The development came on the same day the Supreme Court dismissed a petition against her appointment.

India News: Dismissing the writ petitions challenging Gowri's appointment, the Supreme Court said that the Collegium has a robust scrutiny process to find ...

The proposal regarding advocate Victoria Gowri became controversial after certain statements made against minorities surfaced in the public domain. The top court said that it cannot direct the Collegium to reconsider its recommendation relating to Victoria Gowri. A section of the Madras high court bar had sent a representation to the CJI urging the Collegium to recall the proposal of appointment of advocate Victoria Gowri as a judge.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea seeking to restrain lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri from taking oath as a judge of th.

In her speech, Gowri expressed gratitude to her husband, two daughters, spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, and the nation. During her swearing-in, Victoria Gowri pledged to work towards the liberation of marginalised communities and to promote unity in India. Gowri, by her own admission, is the general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morch, the memorandum signed by 22 lawyers including senior advocates N G R Prasad, R Vaigai, Anna Mathew, D Nagasaila and Sudha Ramalingam, said.

Madras High Court recently appointed Lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri as an additional judge. But, Judge Victoria Gowri's appointment sparked ...

On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, Victoria Gowri took oath as the additional judge of the Madras High Court. In their petition, lawyers Anna Mathew, Sudha Ramalingam and D Nagasaila mentioned the hate speech made by Judge Victoria Gowri against Muslims and Christians. The Supreme Court denied entertaining a plea to restrain Victoria Gowri from taking the oath. Madras High Court recently appointed Lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri as an additional judge. Advocate Lekshmana Gowri is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu. Advocate L.Victoria Gowri has over 21 years of experience.

Justice Gowri said her responsibility as a judge entailed hearing the oppressed voices of the poor and to liberate the marginalised. | Latest News India.

In her speech, Justice Gowri said her responsibility as a judge entail hearing the oppressed voices of the poor and to liberate the marginalised. Last week, a group of 21 lawyers from the Madras HC had written to the Supreme Court’s Collegium as well as President Droupadi Murmu against Gowri citing her political affiliation to the BJP-led union government and hate speeches against minorities. The union government on Monday had appointed advocate Gowri as one of the additional judges of the Madras HC despite opposition. Justice Gowri said her responsibility as a judge entailed hearing the oppressed voices of the poor and to liberate the marginalised. Prior to her appointment, Gowri represented the BJP-led union government before the Madurai Bench of the Madras HC. Advocate Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri took oath on Tuesday as an additional judge of the Madras high court while the

Suspense and uncertainty preceded the swearing-in of Justice L C Victoria Gowri as judge of the Madras high court on Tuesday.

"Today I undertake to dispense justice in realising the dreams of the makers of our Constitution," she added. Within moments of the apex court dismissing the petition, all the five were sworn in one after the other. L C Victoria Gowri as judge of the Madras high court on Tuesday.