For top judges, Madras HC stepping stone to SC

Chennai | Sunday | 22nd July, 2018

Summary:

Since 2008, the Calcutta high court had six CJs, but only three made it to the Supreme Court. No judge from the Madras high court has been made head of an appeals court of equivalent size or importance.The Manipur high court has 3,670 pending dockets (record of proceedings in a legal action). The Bombay high court has had seven, including Tahilramani, but only three have gone on to be judges in the top court. The 75-judge court has just one judge, R Banumathi, in the apex court, and just one, R Sudhakar, as chief justice of a high court. He heads the Manipur high court, one of the country’s tiniest appeals courts, with just two junior judges..