Following the Supreme Court Collegium’s advice for elevation of Justice J B Pardiwala of Gujarat High Court to the Supreme Court earlier this week, the Union Ministry of Law and Justice Saturday issued a notification confirming the elevation and his appointment to the apex courtroom.
Two judges have been advisable by the Collegium for elevation to the Supreme Court — Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Pardiwala — and the appointments division of the division of justice underneath the ministry confirmed each the elevations Saturday.
Justice Pardiwala, a local of Valsad and born in Bombay in 1965, is anticipated to serve on the Supreme Court till his retirement in 2030. The fourth-generation authorized skilled began from the Bar in 1989 and moved to the Bench in 2011, adopted by his affirmation as a everlasting decide at Gujarat High Court in 2013.
In 2015, as many as 58 members of the Rajya Sabha petitioned the then Vice-President of India and Rajya Sabha Chairman Mohammad Hamid Ansari to provoke an impeachment proceedings in opposition to Justice Pardiwala for his “unconstitutional” remarks in opposition to reservations in a case pertaining to Patidar chief Hardik Patel and others, the place that they had sought quashing of sedition costs in opposition to them.
Justice Pardiwala had expunged the remarks subsequent to the Rajya Sabha members’ petitioning. He had initially noticed that in his opinion, reservation and corruption are two issues “that have not allowed the country to progress in the right direction”. These remarks have been later deleted by means of a ‘speaking to minutes’ order.
At Gujarat High Court, Justice Pardiwala has presided over legal, civil, taxation and business issues, and has additionally adjudicated over environment-related points, together with taking over the difficulty of air pollution of Sabarmati river in a suo motu cognisance. Justice Pardiwala has round 1,012 reportable judgments on diversified topics.
In May 2020, he was heading a division bench presiding over a PIL pertaining to the dealing with of Covid-19 in Gujarat, the place the bench had in contrast the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital to a “dungeon”, refusing to present the state authorities a clear chit on its narrative of all being properly. At the time, Justice Pardiwala had additionally taken suo motu cognisance of a number of media studies highlighting the plight and problems with migrant labourers in addition to of the excessive mortality price within the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. Days later, Justice Pardiwala was abruptly shuffled out of the bench with a roster change on the final working day of the week.
