SHIMLA, June 19:
A full Court reference was held in the Himachal Pradesh High Court to welcome the 22nd Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir, who was sworn-in yesterday.
Earlier, he was discharging duties as Acting Chief Justice of this High Court since November 27, 2013. The Registrar General C B Barowalia conducted the proceedings.
Speaking on the occasion, Justice Mir said that the strength of the judiciary lies in public confidence, which in turn depends upon good relationship between the Bar and the Bench.
“Honest, sincere, and diligent discharge of duties should be done by each of them with probity. Any wrong conduct or act on the part of anyone of them would adversely affect the public confidence which would not be good and would rather be detrimental to our Justice Delivery System.”
Therefore, both the Bench and the Bar must take care to ensure that they or any one of them do not act or do anything, which will erode public confidence in the judiciary, the Chief Justice said and also thanked the Bar and bench for the affection and cooperation extended to him during his tenure as the Acting Chief Justice.
Justice Sanjay Karol welcomed Justice Mir on assumption of charge of the Chief Justice saying that Justice Mir is an efficient, honest and deeply religious person, who is committed to the cause of justice.
The Advocate General and Chairman of the Bar Council of H P Shravan Dogra, President of H P High Court Bar Association Ashwani Pathak, and Addl. Solicitor General of India Sandeep Sharma also spoke on the occasion.
Judges of the High Court – Justice Sanjay Karol, Justice Rajiv Sharma, Justice V K Sharma, Justice Dharam Chand Chaudhary, Justice Tarlok Chauhan, Justice P S Rana and Justice Sureshwar Thakur were present on the occasion.
The Registrars of High Court- Sushil Kukreja, Arvind Malhotra and Yashwant Chogal alongwith a large number of dignitaries, Bar and Staff members among others were also present on the occasion. (UNI)
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