rajesh kumar agrawal was the 26th chief justice of the madras high court.
rajesh kumar agrawal was the 26th chief justice of the madras high court.
who was the 26th chief justice of the madras high court?
rajesh kumar agrawal
indira banerjee was appointed as a permanent judge of the calcutta high court on 5 february 2002 and transferred to the delhi high court with effect from 8 august 2016. she was elevated as the chief justice of the madras high court and assumed charge on 5 april 2017.









































justice banerjee succeeded justice sanjay kishan kaul as the chief justice of the madras high court, after he was elevated to the supreme court of india. she is the second woman to head the chartered high court, after justice kanta kumari bhatnagar who headed the court between june and november 1992.
indira banerjee
in another controversial incident, in january 2014, karnan barged into a court room at the madras high court during a hearing of a public interest litigation (pil) before a division bench of on a matter relating to the appointment of certain judges. he told the bench in open court that the selection was unfair and that he wanted to file an affidavit in his name. the behavior was condemned by the supreme court saying, "the sudden unfamiliar incident made us fume inwardly at this raw unconventional protest that was unexpected, uncharitable and ungenerous and, to say the least, indecorous." during the time, the then chief justice of the madras high court, rajesh kumar agrawal, wrote to the chief justice of the supreme court, p. sathasivam, asking him to transfer karnan to any other high court. however, karnan wrote to sathasivam and agrawal, stating that he wished to stay on in the madras high court, in order to prove the allegations that he had raised against the chief justice and the other judges of the court. subsequently, karnan wrote to the joint registrar of the right to information section, alleging irregularities in the appointment of district judges. he sought details of the selection process in order to file a complaint before the president of india. in the intervening period, 20 judges of the madras high court jointly wrote to the chief justice of india requesting justice karnan's transfer.
c. s. karnan