Husband, Wife Proposed To Be Elevated As Judges Of Madras HC

Murali Shankar Kuppuraju, presently serving as the Principal District & Sessions Judge at Tiruchi, and Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam, posted as the Registrar (Judicial) at the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, were married in the year 1996.

The couple was promoted to the cadres of sub judge, district judge and then principal district judge at the same time, in different districts, as per the information given to the news agency.

They shall now be sworn in as HC Judges together, if the recommendations are approved by the Central Government.

Mr. Kuppuraju obtained his degree in law from the Government Law College in Coimbatore in the year 1990. He joined the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service at the entry level as a District Munsif-cum-Judicial Magistrate in 1995. He was posted as the Principal District Judge in June last year.

Ms. Valayapalayam obtained her degree in law from Puducherry and joined the judicial service in the same post as her husband in 1995.

Apart from the couple, the following Judicial Officers are in the row for elevation as HC Judges:

• AA Nakkiran
• Ananthi Subramanian
• G. Chandrasekharan
• Ilangovan Ganesan
• Kannammal Shanmugasundaram
• Manjula Ramaraju Nalliah
• Sathikumar Sukumara Kurup
• Sivagnanam Veerasamy