Summary:
Justice Vimala is 15th in seniority among the 63 judges of the Madras high court. Justice Vimala is jurist with a heart, as she is known to pen expressive verdicts backed by meaty legal propositions, keeping the interests of under-privileged litigants alone at the centre. Born in January 1957, she was appointed as additional judge of the high court on December 20, 2011 and became permanent judge on October 21, 2013. She then referred the matter to the next senior-most judge for nominating the third judge. The chief justice took a moral high ground and said that since she herself was part of the bench, it would not be proper for her to name a third judge whose ruling would be final..