Jasti Chelameswar
| Hon'ble Justice Jasti Chalameswar | |
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| Judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
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Assumed office October 10, 2011[1] | |
| Appointed by | Pratibha Patil |
| Chief Justice, Kerala High Court | |
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In office March 17, 2010 – October 9, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | S. R. Bannurmath |
| Succeeded by | Manjula Chellur |
| Chief Justice, Gauhati High Court | |
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In office May 2, 2007 – March 17, 2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 June 1953 Machilipatnam, Krishna dist, Andhra Pradesh, India |
Jasti Chelameswar (born 23 June 1953) is a judge on the Supreme Court of India. He was formerly the Chief Justice of the High Court of Kerala and Gauhati High Court.[2]
Early life
Chalameswar was born in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India to Jasti Annapoorna and Lakshminarayana, a lawyer at Machilipatnam, Krishna Dist.
Career
Chalameswar served as the Additional Judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. Later, he became the Chief Justice of Guwahati High Court in 2007. He was later transferred as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and was elevated as a Judge, Supreme Court of India in October 2011.
He has delivered several landmark judgements while in the top court. These include striking down the draconian Section 66A of the IT Act and staying the Aadhaar scheme as violative of a citizen's privacy.[3]
In the landmark NJAC verdict(2015), he had criticised the collegium system of appointing judges, has become “a euphemism for nepotism” where “mediocrity or even less” is promoted and a “constitutional disorder” does not look distant.[4]
References
- ↑ "Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jasti Chelameswar". Supreme Court of India. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ↑ "Meet Jasti Chelameswar, only judge who ruled in favour of government's NJAC - The Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- ↑ "Meet Jasti Chelameswar, only judge who ruled in favour of government's NJAC - The Economic Times". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- ↑ "The judge who dissented: ‘No accountability, mediocrity or even less promoted, reform overdue’". The Indian Express. 2015-10-17. Retrieved 2015-11-03.