The Supreme Court of India has designated former Delhi High Court judges Justices Mukta Gupta and Najmi Waziri as senior advocates..The decision was made at a meeting recently conducted by the Chief Justice of India and other Supreme Court judges on October 16..Justice Gupta was appointed to the Delhi High Court as an additional judge on October 23, 2009 and confirmed as a permanent judge on May 29, 2014. She retired in June this year.A day before her retirement, she pronounced 65 verdicts.During her career as a lawyer, she appeared in several high-profile cases including the Parliament and Red Fort shootout cases, the Jessica Lal murder case, the Naina Sahni murder case and the Nitish Katara murder case, both in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court..Read our interview with Justice Gupta here..Justice Waziri was known as the "green judge," who through his orders, effectively paved way for the plantation of lakhs of trees in various parts of Delhi.His “green” orders aside, Waziri adjudicated on matters pertaining to civil law, rendering some significant judgments in that domain during his tenure of nearly ten years as a judge. He retired in July this year..Judges don't bother with what is written in the media: Former Delhi High Court judge Justice Najmi Waziri [Part I]
