Delhi High Court judge transferred to Calcutta | Delhi News – The Times of India

New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday cleared the proposal to transfer Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma of Delhi High Court to Calcutta High Court.
In a release, the Union law ministry said Justice Sharma stood transferred from Delhi to the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court collegium recommended his transfer late last month. Sources said that it was a routine move.
He becomes the third judge from Delhi High Court to be transferred over the past few days after Justices Yashwant Varma and Chandra Dhari Singh.
Justice Sharma, who currently ranks 18th in seniority in Delhi High Court, was appointed a high court judge in Feb 2022. He was the district and sessions judge, New Delhi, and registrar-general of Delhi High Court before his elevation as a high court judge.
Last year, Justice Sharma took a strict view of the need to ensure that coaching centres adhere to rules and regulations and even advised the lieutenant governor to appoint a committee chaired by a former judge for such a purpose. He also said a place should be earmarked where all coaching centres could function. He was dealing with the bail plea of the owner of a building basement that housed an IAS coaching centre. Three civil service aspirants drowned and died after they were trapped in the basement that had become inundated.
Earlier this year, the judge also asked Delhi University and the Bar Council of India to consider online classes for law students so that they could make up for the shortage in attendance. Recently, his bench dealt with a tricky issue where he upheld an arbitral award exempting Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) from paying annual fees to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ruling not only reinforced the principle of force majeure (extraordinary event negating contractual obligations) but also referred to the “catastrophic” financial impact of the pandemic on the aviation industry.
Justice Sharma joined the Delhi judiciary in 1992. He has worked substantially in legal aid services as a judge and also completed a course on conflict management from the University of Oxford, London, while working with the National Human Rights Commission.
In his long career, besides presiding over courts of various jurisdictions, he worked as the secretary of the Delhi High Court Legal Service Committee and as director, Delhi Judicial Academy, where he introduced projects such as “mock trials” for judicial officers.