Indian High Court Judge seek permission to transfer to another state, expressing his concern that his daughter will shortly begin practising in the state. Supreme court accepted his request and issued transfer order for the Jammu and Kashmir
The Madhya Pradesh High Court judge’s request to be transferred out of the state was granted by the Supreme Court Collegium because his daughter, a law student, will begin representing clients in district courts and before the high court’s Indore bench early next year.
Justice Atul Sreedharan, who was appointed to the MP high court on April 7, 2016, had “sought a transfer out of the State of Madhya Pradesh on the ground that his elder daughter would enter practise next year and would be appearing before the District Court and the Indore Bench,” according to a resolution from the five-member Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, dated March 28.
In response, “the Collegium has resolved to accept the request of Mr. Justice Atul Sreedharan and to recommend that he be transferred, in the interest of better administration of justice, to the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh,” the document stated that the judge “has stated that he does not desire to continue in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh when his daughter enters practice.”
