Justice Muralidhar, who slammed Delhi Police and Modi government’s lawyer for carnage in national capital, transferred to Punjab and Haryana High Court

President Ramnath Kovind has ordered the transfer of Justice S Muralidhar, who slammed Delhi Police and Modi government’s lawyer for the carnage in the national capital, to Punjab and Haryana High Court. The Supreme Court had recommended his transfer on 12 February.…

Justice Muralidhar had made scathing observations against the Delhi Police and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, for the deteriorating law and order in Delhi…

On Wednesday, Justice Muralidhar had said that the bench comprising him and Justice Talwant Singh ‘could not ‘let another 1984 scenario happen in this city; not under the watch if this court.’ His bench had also directed the Delhi Police to take a decision on the filing of FIRs against BJP leaders, Parvesh Verma, Abhay Verma, Anurag Thakur and Kapil Mishra, for making inflammatory speeches.…

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