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| J&K High Court may get first woman judge this year | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: For the first time since it was created as High Court of Judicature in 1928, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court is likely to get its first woman judge later this year.
Jammu-based Deputy Advocate General Neeru Goswami, who is the Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami's wife, has been recommended for her appointment as a judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court by the collegium on last Thursday. The collegium, comprising Chief Minister M.M. Kumar and the two senior most judges, Justice Virender Singh and Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, has unanimously recommended a panel of the four names to fill up equal number of the vacancies of judges in the High Court.
Others recommended in a confidential communication to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Governor NN Vohra and Chief Justice of India Justice P. Sathasivam, include Srinagar-based Additional Advocate General Javed Kawoosa, advocate Nazir Ahmad Beg and Jammu-based advocate Sanjiv Kumar (Shukla). If cleared in multiple verification and recommendation processes, Kawoosa and Shukla would be appointed as permanent judges. Khan and Goswami would be inducted as additional judges.
With the sanctioned strength of 14 judges, J&K High Court has currently 10 judges, including the Chief Justice. Five new judges were inducted in 2013 while as three judges---Pramod Kohli, Sunil Hali and J.P. Singh---retired in the same year. All the four vacancies exist in the advocates' quota.
Justice Tashi Rabstan is likely to be confirmed as a permanent judge later this year. A new incumbent to be appointed against the vacancy shall be however posted outside the J&K State.
Among those recommended in 2012, Hakeem Ishtiyaq Hussain had died a day after his nomination by the collegium. Advocate Azharul Amin's name was dropped, reportedly on a Central agency's disclosure about his "old time association" with the High Court Bar Association---a constituent of the separatist Hurriyat Conference from 1993 to 2003.
Even among the candidates who had qualified the Higher Judicial Service examination in 2012 for their appointment directly as District and Sessions Judge, one Mohammad Altaf Khan was dropped for his association with militancy for several years.
During his character verification process, the CID wing of J&K Police had pointed out that Khan had operated as a militant and Deputy Chief of Al-Jihad militant outfit. He had reportedly attacked security forces with hand grenades and sustained gunshot injuries in retaliation on his body before his arrest in downtown Srinagar alongwith cash worth Rs 11 lakh and a year of detention under Public Safety Act. Surprisingly, the selectors had given him 20/20 marks in the viva and placed him on the top of the merit list against just 6/20 to Tahir Khursheed Rana of Thanna Mandi Rajouri who was the topper in the written examination. |
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