Overview
- Meeting on October 14, the Supreme Court collegium revised its August recommendation that would have moved Justice Atul Sreedharan from Madhya Pradesh to Chhattisgarh, opting for the Allahabad High Court instead.
- The officially published resolution says the change followed a reconsideration sought by the Union government, a disclosure widely described as unusual for collegium statements.
- Had he gone to Chhattisgarh he would have been second in seniority, whereas in Allahabad he is expected to rank lower and will not be part of that High Court’s collegium.
- Justice Sreedharan recently joined a Madhya Pradesh division bench that took suo motu cognisance of minister Kunwar Vijay Shah’s remarks about Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, directing police to register an FIR.
- While serving in the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, he quashed several Public Safety Act detentions, adding to a record of rulings centered on personal liberty.