Mohit Shah
Bombay high court chief justice Mohit Shah retired on Tuesday, a fter presiding over the court for over five years, reported The Indian Express.
Shah had started practising in the Gujarat high court in 1976 and was elevated as a judge on the bench of the same court in 1995. He is known for his judgments related to social causes and was even praised by prime minister Narendra Modi for preserving the Bombay high court’s history in the form of a museum, according to the Express report.
Shah was quoted as observing,
From my experience I feel the people here (Mumbai) have a better sense of social responsibility and civic sense. We should test the efficacy of a law from the point of view of a common man and not only lawyers. It should meet the expectations of the common man and not judges and lawyers.
I feel that we should test the efficacy of a law from a common man’s point of view. It should meet the expectations of the common man and not judges and lawyers.
Justice VK Tahilramani has been appointed as the acting Chief Justice of Bombay high court until a regular appointment is made.
The Bombay high court has declined granting interim relief to movie director and producer Anurag Kashyap over a challenge of the government's rule to superimpose a "smoking is injurious to health" warning on movies whenever a cigarette is shown on screen.
The Censor Board had not given one of Kashyap's movie a certificate after he refused to include the warning in his movie Ugly. However, Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice MS Sanklecha said it would not grant interim relief and said he'd have to petition the central government to change the rule. [PTI]
Naik Naik & Co represented Kashyap, according to the Bombay high court's causelist of today.
Bombay high court chief justice Mohit S Shah, at a Maharashtra bar council event to promote lawyers to join the judiciary, said that being a judge had many benefits: 1. It's interesting. 2. It's challenging. 3. Enjoying the independent nature of the work. 4. The honour judges enjoy in society. [TOI]