Justice Kuldip Singh, SC’s first green judge, passes away
Published On : 2024-11-27T10:55:56+0530 [ IST ] |
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Justice Kuldip Singh (File photo)Pollution and environmental cases monitored by him continue today.
No one left a judicial legacy in the field of environment as bright and effective as Justice Kuldip Singh who retired in Dec 1996 but the two environmental cases relating to pollution and forest which he handled with aplomb continue to be heard by two green benches of the SC
Justice Singh passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92. He is survived by two sons Paramjit Singh Patwalia and Deepinder Singh Patwalia both reputed senior advocates and two daughters - Simran and Chandana
Singh was born in 1932 in Jhelum now Pakistan. He graduated in law from Punjab University and became Barrister-at-Law in Nov 1959 prior to commencing practice in Punjab HC. However he continued to teach law part-time at Punjab Univ Law College until 1971. He was appointed Advocate General of Punjab in 1987 the year he moved to
He was appointed as a judge of the SC on December 14 1988 though his name was ahead of A M Ahmadi in the sequence of oath taking. On the day of oath taking he was informed by the then CJI R S Pathak that he would take oath after Justice Ahmadi. This change in sequence meant
If Justice Singh had taken oath prior to Ahmadi he would have been the CJI from Oct 1994 to Dec 1996 and the tenure of Justice Ahmadi as CJI would have been reduced to just three months. Finding the change in the sequence of oath taking
As a judge of the SC he took up with keen interest two cases - one filed by environmentalistM C Mehtain in 1985 to protect Taj Mahal from industrial and vehicular pollution which was already causing a yellowing effect on white marble monument and the other by T N Godavarman Thirumulpad in 1995 for declar
The zeal with which he proceeded to activate lethargic administration for protection of the monument and reduce pollution in the Taj Trapezium zone and used the other case to protect forests and curb mindless felling of trees across the country earned him the moniker ‘green judge’. These two cases are still alive in the SC docket and are now heard by
Source : Reporters From Sunrise Chronicles
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Justice Kuldip Singh (File photo)Pollution and environmental cases monitored by him continue today.
No one left a judicial legacy in the field of environment as bright and effective as Justic
