Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi administered oath of office to Madras High Court Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari in the presence of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the Raj Bhavan here on Monday. Hailing from Rajasthan, he is the 32 nd Indian Chief Justice of the High Court and 43 rd Chief Justice if the 11 British Chief Justices since August 15, 1862 are also taken into consideration.
After the swearing in ceremony, Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram welcomed the Chief Justice at an official function organised by the Registry on the High Court campus and said the latter had achieved a very high distinction in his legal career by becoming the Chief Justice of the second oldest High Court, the first being the Calcutta High Court, in the country.
The A-G said, the Madras High Court campus spread over 107 acres was also the second largest court complexes in the world after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and that eminent jurist Fali S. Nariman himself had acknowledged that Court Hall No.1 of the Madras High Court, presided over by its Chief Justice, was the best court hall in the entire country.
