Madras High Court former judge K. Chandru has expressed surprise over recent reports in a section of the media that said 23-year-old V. Sripathy from Yelagiri Hills in Tirupattur district had become the “first Scheduled Tribe woman” in the State to clear the written examination for appointment as a civil judge.
Mr. Chandru pointed out that many Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates from the State had achieved this feat in Tamil Nadu in the past, and even the senior-most Principal District and Sessions Judge of the State at present S. Alli, currently stationed in Chennai, herself belonged to a Scheduled Tribe.
The Hindu had reported that Ms. Sripathy was the first woman civil judge hailing from the Malayali tribe, which is one of the several communities listed under the STs.
