Justice Pankaj Mittal is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He has served as Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court (2022-2023), Chief Judge of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (2021-2022) and Judge of the Allahabad High Court (2006-2021).
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Pankaj Mithal was born on Saturday, June 17, 1961, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India (61 years old as of 2022). His zodiac sign is Gemini. He attended St. Mary’s College, Meerut, which is affiliated to the Indian School Certificate (ISC) Board. Growing up in a family of lawyers, Mittal was interested in pursuing a legal career. He graduated in Commerce from Allahabad University in 1982 and received his LLB from Meerut College, Chaudhry Charan Singh University, Meerut in 1985.
family
Parents and siblings
His father Justice Narendra Nath Mittal (late) was a civil lawyer practicing in the Meerut District Court. Narendra Nath Mithal served as Legal Advisor (Civil) to the District Government for several years before being promoted to the post of Judge, Allahabad High Court of Justice on December 14, 1978 and served till April 8, 1992. His mother, Vimal Mithal (late), was a law graduate. She established the Justice Narendra Nath Mittal Memorial Foundation Trust to fund legal education, especially for girls. His younger brother Parav Mittal is a political science teacher.
Pankaj Mithal parents, Justice Narendra Nath Mithal and Vimal Mithal
wife and children
His marital status is unknown.
other relatives
His grandfather, Babu Brij Nath Mithal, was a lawyer in Uttar Pradesh. He also serves as the Honorary Dean of the Law Department of Meerut College, and the male dormitory of the Law Department of the school is named BNM Hostel (Brij Nath Mithal Hostel) after him. His uncle Raghuvar Dayal Mithal was the eldest son of Brij Nath Mithal and a lawyer at Meerut Bar Association. Raghuwal was twice invited to serve as a judge of the Allahabad High Court of Justice, but he declined citing personal reasons.
Profession
In 1985, he was registered as a lawyer with the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council. Initially, he worked under the guidance of Sudhir Chandra Verma, who later became a judge of the Allahabad High Court and a judge of Uttar Pradesh Lokayukt. Mittal primarily handles civil litigation and handles land acquisition, rent control, education, labor and other miscellaneous cases including services and constitutional law. He was the Standing Legal Advisor of UP Avas Evam Vikas Parishad Lucknow from 1990 till promotion to Judge and was the Standing Legal Advisor of Dr. BR Ambedkar University, Agra from 1990 to February 2006. On July 7, 2006, he became the additional judge in the case. Allahabad High Court. On July 2, 2008, he was elevated to the post of Permanent Judge of the Allahabad High Court. His term ends on January 3, 2021. He served as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Courts from January 4, 2021 to October 13, 2022.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha administers oath to Justice Pankaj Mithal during the swearing-in ceremony at the Convention Center in 2021 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh New Chief Justice of the Federal Territories Common High Court
On October 14, 2022, he was appointed as the 40th Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court.
Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra swore in Justice Pankaj Mithal as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court at Raj Bhavan on October 14, 2022
On February 6, 2023, he was promoted to a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
CJI DY Chandrachud administers the oath of office to Justice Pankaj Mithal as judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2023
Other judges promoted to the Supreme Court include Manipur High Court Chief Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, Patna High Court Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Patna High Court Justice Sanjay Karol and Allahabad High Court Justice Manoj Misra.
dispute
CPI(M) writes to President demanding Mittal’s removal from Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh divisions
In 2021, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding the removal of Chief Justice Pankaj Mittal of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court for adding “the Constitution “Socialist” and “secular” in the preamble. Addressing a seminar organized by RSS-affiliated organization Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad, Mittal said,
Incorporating the terms secular and socialist into the preamble of the Constitution narrows the spiritual profile of India. “
Furthermore, he added,
Sometimes we propose amendments because we insist. “
The letter also claimed that Justice Mittal “violated his oath and undermined the constitutional office he held” by making remarks against the Indian Constitution.
Facts/Trivia
- He has loved stamp collecting since he was a child and has a strong interest in philately (the study of stamps).
- He is associated with and chairs several committees of the Allahabad High Court, including the Library Committee, the Higher Judicial Services Committee and the High Court Museum Construction Monitoring Committee. Additionally, he was a member of the Coins and Stamps Sub-Committee of the Sesquicentennial Commission, which oversaw the publication of a set of two stamps bearing images of the buildings of the Allahabad High Court and the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court. issued. The Subcommittee also oversaw the issuance by the President of India of a set of Rs. 150/- coins and Rs. 5/- commemorative coins bearing the logo of the High Court on March 13, 2016 during the inauguration of the 150th High Court. High Court Anniversary.
- During his tenure in Lucknow, he also served as Chairman of the National Advisory Council under the National Security Act. besides. He is the Chairman of Ramadhanir College (boys and girls’ school, Lucknow).
- While working as a lawyer, Mittal had written an article titled “The Birth and History of Allahabad High Court” which was widely published in various local newspapers and legal journals. One of his articles on the Code of Conduct for Lawyers was published twice in Laws, a legal magazine published in New Delhi.
- He was twice nominated by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Executive Committee of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith in Varanasi. Later, he was nominated as a member of the Executive Committee of Chaudhry Charan Singh University, Meerut.
- Mithal is a trustee of Etawah Hindi Sewa Nidhi, an organization founded and promoted by the late Justice Prem Shankar Gupta to promote Hindi and other Indian languages.
- In August 2022, while serving as the chief judge of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, Mittal laid the foundation stone of the Akhnoor court complex and residential complex to enhance infrastructure.
Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal lays foundation stone of Akhnoor Court Building
- Pankaj Mithal is also a trustee of the Justice Narendra Nath Mittal Memorial Foundation, established by his mother in memory of his father.
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