New Delhi: KM Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, has been transferred to the Andhra Pradesh High Court set up in Hyderabad, news agency ANI has reported.
Joseph was recently in the news after a bench headed by him scrapped president's rule in Uttarakhand.
While striking down the president rule, his bench made scathing comment on the central government for imposing its will , a day before the floor test was due to be carried out in the state Assembly.
"There is no king or absolutism. Howsoever high you are, the law is above you. Legitimacy of relevant inference drawn from the material that is placed before the President is open to judicial review," a bench of Chief Justice KM Joseph and Justice VK Bist had said.
"We hope they will not provoke us" till a verdict is delivered on the petition challenging its imposition, the bench said.
"Why don't you give a definite instruction that you won't revoke the President's Rule for a week? Tomorrow, if you revoke President's Rule and invite somebody, it will be a travesty of justice," the court had said.
Later the Supreme court stayed the HC's verdict and expressed displeasure at the he High Court for not releasing a written judgment.
Meanwhile, Dilip B Bhosale of the Hyderabad High Court has been posted as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
Justice Joseph(57), enrolled as an advocate in 1982 in Delhi. A native of Kerala, he studied Law at Government Law College, Ernakulam. He practised at the High Court of Kerala from 1983.
