Justice Ramesh Devkinandan Dhanuka was on Sunday sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais administered the oath of office to Justice Dhanuka in a brief swearing-in ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan. A Raj Bhavan statement said the ceremony began and ended with the national anthem played by the police band.
Additional Chief Secretary Manisha Mhaiskar Patankar read out the warrant of appointment of the Chief Justice issued by the President of India, Smt. Draupadi Murmu, The ceremony began and ended with the national anthem played by the police band.
Justice Dhanuka is scheduled to demit office on May 30 on attaining the age of 62, and will have a tenure as Chief Justice of four days, possibly the shortest.
Justice Dhanuka was born on 31st May, 1961 and did his schooling and college in Mumbai, He obtained first class and stood second in the third year law examination conducted by the University of Mumbai in 1985.
He started practicing law at the Bombay High Court in 1985 in the chambers of Sh. Justice DR Dhanuka (retd), until his elevation as a judge of the Bombay High Court in 1990. He practiced on the appellate and original side of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in constitutional law and other branches of law and particularly arbitration, companies. Act, Suit, Testament, Municipal Law, Service Law, Rent Act.
Justice Dhanuka was on the Senior Counsel Panel of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai for the past several years and has appeared in a large number of cases representing the Municipal Corporation in the Bombay High Court. He assumed charge as Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on 23 January 2012.
On Monday, the bench of Justice Dhanuka and Justice GS Kulkarni will hear the cases related to the vacation bench. While Justice Dhanuka will preside over a bench in the central court room in the High Court building, the notified holiday bench headed by Justice Manish Pitale will not sit on Monday.
On May 6, a bench led by Justice Dhanuka directed the Maharashtra government to hand over two flats in south Mumbai to their owner, a 93-year-old woman, thereby ending an eight-decade-long property dispute.
on April 11 a Justice Dhanuka-led bench commented that in India, matrimonial disputes constitute the most bitter adversarial litigation, with the estranged couple treating their children as property or possessions.
On February 9, saying that the project is of “national importance”, a bench led by Justice Dhanuka dismissed a petition filed by Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd, seeking compensation of Rs 264 crore from the Maharashtra government for its The acquisition of land was challenged. AhmedabadMumbai Bullet Train Project.
Meanwhile, Justice SV Gangapurvala was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court on Sunday.