New Delhi/Chennai, December 03, 2020: In a rare and rarest occasion in the history of Judiciary that a husband and a wife taking oath together as judges of the High Court.

According to reports that Justice Murali Shankar Kuppuraju and Justice Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam, are a married couple, who took oath as Madras High Court judges along with eight others on Thursday.

The Madras High Court Advocate General Vijay Narayan, giving a welcome address to the newly sworn-in judges, said that it is the first time that a husband and wife couple have been sworn in as judges on the same day in the Madras High Court.

Ten judicial officers, who were elevated as Madras High Court judges, took their oath on Wednesday. They are :

Govindarajulu Chandrasekharan

AA Nakkiran

Veerasamy Sivagnanam

Ganesan Ilangovan

Ananthi Subramanian

Kannammal Shanmuga Sundaram

Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup

Murali Shankar Kuppuraju

Manjula Ramaraju Nalliah

Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam

It was on December 1 that the Central Government cleared the names of these ten judicial officers for elevation as High Court judges. The Supreme Court collegium had recommended their names for elevation on September 23. All of them will assume their offices for a period of two years except Justices Ananthi Subramanian and Kannamal Shanmugha Sundaram who has been appointed till 30th July, 2022 and 19th July, 2022 respectively.

The oath taking ceremony was live-streamed.

Accordingly, Murali Shankar Kuppuraju, who was serving as the Principal District & Sessions Judge at Tiruchi, and Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam, who was posted as the Registrar (Judicial) at the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, were married in the year 1996.

Last year, a husband-wife duo were sworn in as judges on the same day in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. They are Justices Vivek Puri and Archana Puri.

A similar instance of husband-wife duo being sworn in together as High Court judges happened before in 2009 in Delhi High Court, when Justices A K Pathak and Indermeet Kaur were appointed.

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