Manjula Chellur sworn-in as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court

Mumbai, Aug 22 (PTI) Justice Manjula Chellur today tookoath as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, the secondwoman to occupy the post. Chelluar, who was the Chief Justice of Calcutta HighCourt, was transferred following the retirement of D H Waghelaas Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on August 10.Waghela held the post for six months. Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao administeredthe oath of office to Justice Chellur at a brief swearing-inceremony held at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai. Chellur is the second woman Chief Justice of theBombay High Court, after Sujata Manohar in 1994. The Governor’s wife Ch Vinodha, Maharashtra ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavis, ministers Vinod Tawde, ChandrakantPatil, Ram Shinde, Jaikumar Rawal and Mahadev Jankar, Ministerof State Deepak Kesarkar, Acting Chief Justice of Bombay HighCourt Vijaya Kapse Tahilramani, judges of Bombay High Court,senior government officers and invitees were present, a RajBhavan spokesperson said. Chellur, born in 1955 in Karnataka, got her law degreeand started practising as a lawyer in Karnataka after whichshe became a district judge in 1988. In 2000, she became a permanent judge of the KarnatakaHigh Court. In 2012, she was appointed Chief Justice of KeralaHigh Court and in 2014 she was transferred to Calcutta. She is scheduled to retire in 2017. PTI VT GKRT