SC Collegium Recommends Transfer Of Gauhati HC Judge Ujjal Bhuyan To Bombay HC [Read Resolution]

The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended transfer of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Gauhati High Court to the Bombay High Court. The proposal for transfer stated that the transfer was in the interest of better administration of justice.

Justice Bhuyan enrolled as an advocate in the Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh in the year 1991 after obtaining his LLB degree from Government Law College, Guwahati and LL.M. degree from Gauhati University, Guwahati.

He worked as the Standing Counsel of the Income Tax Department between 1995 and 2008 and served as an Additional Government Advocate for Meghalaya from 2002 till October, 2006. He was also engaged as a Special Counsel of the Forest Department of Arunachal Pradesh from December, 2005 till April, 2009 before being appointed as a Standing Counsel of Gauhati High Court on March 3, 2010. Thereafter, he was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Gauhati High Court on September 6, 2010 and was appointed as an Additional Advocate General of Assam on July 21, 2011.

He was elevated as an Additional Judge in the Gauhati High Court on October 17, 2011 and was made a permanent judge on March 20, 2013. Justice Ujjal is also the Executive Chairman of Mizoram State Legal Services Authority. 

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