Justice Malimath assumes office as HC Judge

Legal Correspondent

Shimla, January 7

Justice Ravi Malimath today assumed office as Judge of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. He was administered oath of office by Chief Justice L Narayana Swamy.

Prior to this, Justice Malimath was serving as the Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Uttarakhand and recently was transferred to the Himachal Pradesh High Court.

Justice Malimath was born on May 25, 1962. He enrolled as an advocate on January, 28, 1987, at Bangalore and practiced in constitutional, civil, criminal, labour and service matters, mainly at Karnataka High Court, Bangalore. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the High Court of Karnataka on February 18, 2008, and permanent Judge on February 17, 2010. The Registrar General, Virender Singh conducted the proceedings.

On this occasion, Judges of the High Court, Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan, Justice Sureshwar Thakur, Justice Vivek Singh Thakur, Justice Ajay Mohan Goel, Justice Sandeep Sharma, Justice Chander Bhusan Barowalia, Justice Anoop Chitkara and Justice Jyotsana Rewal Dua were also present.