Justice, S Murlidhar, has been transferred to the high
court of Punjab and Haryana. Justice Muralidhar is the judge of High Court
Delhi who had reprimanded the Union Government and Delhi Police over the
violence in Delhi this week.He had ordered to lodge the FIR against their hate
speeches by the BJP leaders; namely, Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur, and Praveh
Varma. This violence left dead 27 people.
Justice Murlidhar had heard for the spread violence in
Delhi and its victims’ treatment in his home late night on Tuesday this week.
He had ordered to Delhi police to provide the security to rush the injured
victims from the small hospitals of the prone areas to the other areas
hospitals.
According to report, the SC collegiums had recommended
the transfer of S Murlidhar J. on Feb 12 this month; the notification has been
issued in this connection on Wednesday this week. It said that President Ramnath
Kovind has taken this decision after talking over with Chief Justice of Supreme
Court Sharad Arvind Bobde.
After the recommendation of collegium, Bar Association of
Delhi High Court had gone on strike against this decision on Feb 20. It had
protested the transfer of Murlidhar J. by passing a resolution. it says that
the way a senior judge is being transferred is not correct. According to BBC,
Mohit Mathur, Bar Association’s President, stated, “Justice Murlidhar is on 3rd
place in seniority list of Delhi High Court. If a senior most Judge is
transferred, you ought to transfer him by making Chief Justice of any state,
but you are sending him on same post.”
The
Congress has also put the central government in the dock on the transfer of
Justice Muralidhar. Party leader Randeep Surjewala said that as a bench headed
by Justice Muralidhar held the BJP leaders and the government responsible for
the violence in Delhi, he was transferred from the Delhi High Court in the same
night. Would that god, they could have caught the miscreants with this
intensity. So
hasty could they catch the rioters.
