Justice Vineet Kothari takes oath as Gujarat High Court Judge

Justice Vineet Kothari takes oath as Gujarat High Court Judge

Ahnedabad: Justice Vineet Kothari today took oath as a Judge in Gujarat High Court. Justice Kothari was previously an Acting Chief Justice in Madras High Court. He was transferred to Gujarat High Court on recommendation of a five Judge collegium led by the Chief Justice of India.

Justice Kothari hails from a family of accountants. Justice Kothari himself had practised as a chartered accountant for two years before entering the legal profession. He had got elevated as a judge of the Rajasthan High Court in 2005 and was transferred to Karnataka in 2016.

He had assumed charge as the senior-most judge of the Madras High Court on November 23, 2018 and had served as its Additional Chief Justice immediately after former Chief Justice Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani resigned in September 2019 and once again after the retirement of Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi.