Husband & Wife Take Oath As Madras High Court Judges

The Madras High Court on Thursday witnessed a rare occasion of a husband and a wife taking oath together as judges.

Justice Murali Shankar Kuppuraju and Justice Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam, who took oath as High Court judges along with eight others, are a married couple.

Advocate General Vijay Narayan, giving a welcome address to the newly sworn-in judges, said that it is the first time that a husband and wife couple have been sworn in as judges on the same day in the Madras High Court.

Murali Shankar Kuppuraju, who was serving as the Principal District & Sessions Judge at Tiruchi, and Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam, who was posted as the Registrar (Judicial) at the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, were married in the year 1996.

Last year, a husband-wife duo were sworn in as judges on the same day in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. They are Justices Vivek Puri and Archana Puri.

Ten judicial officers, who were elevated as Madras High Court judges, took their oath on Wednesday. They are :

Govindarajulu Chandrasekharan

AA Nakkiran

Veerasamy Sivagnanam

Ganesan Ilangovan

Ananthi Subramanian

Kannammal Shanmuga Sundaram

Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup

Murali Shankar Kuppuraju

Manjula Ramaraju Nalliah

Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam

It was on December 1 that the Central Government cleared the names of these ten judicial officers for elevation as High Court judges.

The Supreme Court collegium had recommended their names for elevation on September 23.

All of them will assume their offices for a period of two years except Justices Ananthi Subramanian and Kannamal Shanmugha Sundaram who has been appointed till 30th July, 2022 and 19th July, 20222 respectively.

The oath taking ceremony was live-streamed here.