Week after SC Collegium recommends, Justice DK Upadhyaya appointed as Chief Justice of Delhi HC
He was made a permanent judge in August 2013 and became senior judge of the Lucknow bench in March 2023.
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Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya.(Credit: bombayhighcourt.nic.in)A week after the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendation, the Centre on Tuesday cleared the appointment of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, who is at present the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. The central government has also notified that Justice Alok Aradhe, presently the Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court, will be appointed as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
Born in 1965 in Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar, Justice Upadhyaya graduated in law in 1991 from Lucknow University and practised broadly in civil and constitutional areas at Allahabad High Court in Lucknow. He was appointed as the chief standing counsel in Uttar Pradesh in May 2007 and continued to hold the office till his elevation as a judge in the Allahabad High Court in 2011.
He was made a permanent judge in August 2013 and became senior judge of the Lucknow bench in March 2023. In July 2023, he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
In October last year, a Chief Justice Upadhyaya-led bench at the Bombay High Court had slammed the Maharashtra government for not following deadlines to issue a final notification to enforce fire safety norms for vulnerable buildings. The court had said that an urgent decision was expected from the government in light of recent fire accidents, including the one on the early morning of October 6 when three minors among seven members of a family were killed after a fire broke out in a building at Chembur’s Siddharth Colony.
Chief Justice Upadhyaya, at the Bombay High Court, in August 2023, had also batted for preserving the present Bombay HC building, noting that while it was the duty of the state government and the high court administration to ensure that the work is shifted to the new complex at Bandra East at the earliest once it is constructed, at the same time, the archaeological and heritage value of the existing complex should be maintained and preserved.
As a judge at Allahabad HC, in 2023, Justice Upadhyaya emphasised upon the right to equal treatment in jobs for HIV and AIDS patients while adjudicating a CRPF constable’s case. Citing Central Police Force Rules as well as Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, he had ruled that the constable could not be denied promotion.
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