JAIPUR: New Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi will take oath of office at Raj Bhavan at 1pm on Tuesday. Governor Kalraj Mishra will administer the oath of office to the new chief justice. Justice Kureshi succeeds Justice Indrajit Mahanty who was transferred to Tripura HC.
Justice Kureshi is the second senior-most judge of the high court and is due to retire on March 7, 2022.
Justice Kureshi was in the news when as a judge of the Gujarat High Court, he had set aside a trial court order and granted the CBI two-day custody of the then Gujarat home minister and current Union home minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case in 2010. In 2014, Shah was cleared in the case by a special CBI court.
