Nearly three years before his term was to end, Bombay High Court judge Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu has tendered his resignation citing personal reasons.
Naidu told Indian Express that he had tendered resignation on Friday, August 13, and it will come into effect from August 18.
Justice Naidu (59), former judge of Kerala High Court, was transferred to Bombay High Court in 2019. He was to retire in June 2024.
Justice Naidu was first appointed judge of the Andhra Pradesh HC in 2013 before being moved to the Kerala HC in 2014. He came to Bombay HC five years later.
This is the third resignation of an HC judge in three years. Last year, the senior-most judge of Bombay HC, Justice S C Dharmadhikari, resigned with effect from February 15, citing purely personal’ reasons. He said he wanted to be in Maharashtra for his family.
Earlier, Chief Justice V K Tahilramani of the Madras high court, earlier the acting Chief Justice of Bombay HC, resigned on September 6, 2019.
The Bombay HC, which has a principal seat in Mumbai, along with benches at Aurangabad, Nagpur and Goa, is currently functioning with 63 judges (54 permanent judges and 9 additional judges). Though its sanctioned strength is 94.
With Justice Naidu’s resignation, the total strength of HC will be 62.
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