THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Justice Navniti Prasad Singh was sworn in the new Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court on Monday. Governor P Sathasivam administered the oath of office to Justice Singh at the Raj Bhavan.
CM Pinarayi Vijayan and ministers G Sudhakaran, A K Saseendran, Mathew T Thomas, E Chandrasekharan, C Raveendranath and Ramachandran Kadannappally were present. Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor also attended the ceremony. HC judges - Justice Antony Dominic, Justice P N Raveendran, Justice Surendra Mohan and Justice P R Ramachandra Menon - were also present. Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh and Mihir Kumar Jha represented the Patna High Court and Bihar Lok Ayukta respectively. Prior to this appointment, Singh was a judge at the Patna HC. He has delivered many significant judgments, including the one that quashed the Bihar liquor ban.