Justice Dheeraj Singh Thakur sworn in as Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court
Amaravati (IANS). Justice Dheeraj Singh Thakur was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday.
State Governor S. Abdul Nazeer administered the oath to Justice Thakur who is the sixth Chief Justice of the High Court. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, a member of the cabinet, Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu, High Court judges and other senior officials.
The Central Government recently appointed Justice Thakur, a judge of the Bombay High Court, as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. He succeeds Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, who has been elevated as a Supreme Court judge.
The Supreme Court Collegium had on July 5 recommended that Justice Thakur be appointed as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. The post of Chief Justice fell vacant on May 19 as a result of Justice Mishra’s elevation.
Justice Thakur completed his LLB from Jammu University and joined the legal profession in 1989. He was enrolled as an advocate on the rolls of the Bar Council of Delhi. His enrollment was transferred to the Bar Council of Jammu and Kashmir in 2010. He was appointed a judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in 2013.
In June 2022, he was transferred to the Bombay High Court where he was the senior-most judge.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court was established on January 1, 2019, by a presidential order after bifurcation.
