The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of Chief Justice S. Muralidhar from the High Court of Orissa to the Madras High Court. The decision was taken at a meeting held on September 28 and forwarded to the Centre for obtaining a Presidential order.
Justice Muralidhar had graduated in chemistry from the Vivekananda College in Chennai in 1981 before pursuing his law degree too over here. He had represented India at the 25th Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held in Washington D.C. in April 1984.
After practicing before the Madras High Court as well as the civil courts in Chennai from September 1984, he shifted his practice to Delhi in July 1987 to work under G. Ramaswamy who was the then Additional Solicitor General. He secured first place in the Advocate-on-Record examination conducted by the Supreme Court in 1990.
