CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Justice Muralidhar, when he was a judge of the Delhi High Court, had sharply criticised the Centre and the Delhi Police over the violence in the capital in 2020. He was later transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Detailed explanation-2: -The government said the judge’s transfer was routine, recommended by the Supreme Court collegium on February 12, and his consent had been taken, as is the norm.

Detailed explanation-3: -Justice Raja was appointed as an additional judge of the Madras High Court on March 31, 2009. This is the third time in recent years that sitting or acting chief justices of the Madras High Court have been transferred – it was justice V L Tahilramani in 2019 and justice Sanjib Banerjee in 2021, and now justice Raja.

Detailed explanation-4: -Post-independence, High court of Punjab was established which exercised jurisdiction over Delhi through a circuit bench till the time Delhi High Court Act, 1966 came into existence.

Detailed explanation-5: -Justice Muralidhar began his law practice in Chennai in September 1984. He shifted to the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court in 1987. He was appointed judge of Delhi High Court in 2006. He was a part of the High Court bench that first legalized homosexuality in the 2009 Naz Foundation case.