By Rajesh Pandey
In major reshuffle, the Alllahabad high court on its administrative side has transferred 582 judicial officers from their present posting to different districts.
The list of 582 judicial officers includes as many as 236 additional district and session Judges. At the same time, 207 civil judge senior division and 139 civil judge junior division rank judicial officers have also been transferred.
The maximum number of judges transferred is thirteen from Kanpur. Besides, eleven judges from Aligarh and five from Bareilly have also been transferred. The list includes Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who gave the decision to survey the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi. He was in Bareilly. Now he has been sent to Chitrakoot district court.
The transfer order was issued on Sunday evening by Satish Kumar Pushkar, Joint Registrar of Allahabad High Court. The judges have been asked to join the new posting place immediately.
The additional district judge, Ravi Diwakar, refers to religious texts in his decisions. He also refers to the couplet of Ramcharit Manas before giving the verdict. He came into the limelight in Bareilly after issuing a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Islamic religious leader Maulana Tauqeer Raza. Judge Ravi Kumar often mentions incidents from Shri Ramcharitmanas and Geeta in his judgments.
