I discharged my duties in fear of God and as per the oath I had taken, outgoing Delhi High Court judge Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar said on Friday..Justice Bhatnagar was speaking at the full court reference to bid him farewell on his superannuation. He is set to retire on June 13.The farewell reference was held today as the Delhi High Court breaks for vacation from June 3 and today was the last working day..Justice Bhatnagar said that his entry to the legal profession was accidental because he wanted to be an engineer but his journey in the field, both as a lawyer and as a judge, was beautiful.“I do have the satisfaction that I discharged by duties in fear of God and the solemn oath that I had taken. I managed to do the work to my utmost satisfaction only because of the love and affection shown to me by senior advocates and younger members of the bar. I extend my whole-hearted thanks to them,” he said..Justice Bhatnagar did BSc from Delhi University in the year 1983 and, thereafter pursued LLB from the Campus Law Centre, Delhi University in the year 1987. He joined the Delhi Higher Judicial Service in the year 2000, after practicing as a lawyer for 13 years.He was elevated as a permanent judge of the Delhi High Court on May 27, 2019..As a judge of the Delhi High Court, Justice Bhatnagar dealt with several important matters. He was part of the Bench that denied bail to JNU scholar Umar Khalid in October 2022.A Division Bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar had said that protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) were covered under the definition of terrorist act in the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.In one of his last judgements passed on May 27, Justice Bhatnagar ordered the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to frame rules and levy charges on encroachers for illegal encroachment of public spaces and land.
I discharged my duties in fear of God and as per the oath I had taken, outgoing Delhi High Court judge Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar said on Friday..Justice Bhatnagar was speaking at the full court reference to bid him farewell on his superannuation. He is set to retire on June 13.The farewell reference was held today as the Delhi High Court breaks for vacation from June 3 and today was the last working day..Justice Bhatnagar said that his entry to the legal profession was accidental because he wanted to be an engineer but his journey in the field, both as a lawyer and as a judge, was beautiful.“I do have the satisfaction that I discharged by duties in fear of God and the solemn oath that I had taken. I managed to do the work to my utmost satisfaction only because of the love and affection shown to me by senior advocates and younger members of the bar. I extend my whole-hearted thanks to them,” he said..Justice Bhatnagar did BSc from Delhi University in the year 1983 and, thereafter pursued LLB from the Campus Law Centre, Delhi University in the year 1987. He joined the Delhi Higher Judicial Service in the year 2000, after practicing as a lawyer for 13 years.He was elevated as a permanent judge of the Delhi High Court on May 27, 2019..As a judge of the Delhi High Court, Justice Bhatnagar dealt with several important matters. He was part of the Bench that denied bail to JNU scholar Umar Khalid in October 2022.A Division Bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar had said that protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) were covered under the definition of terrorist act in the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.In one of his last judgements passed on May 27, Justice Bhatnagar ordered the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to frame rules and levy charges on encroachers for illegal encroachment of public spaces and land.
