Ex-SC judge Abdul Nazeer is the new AP Governor

Tirupati, February 12: Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abdul Nazeer has been appointed as the new Governor of Andhra Pradesh. He will succeed the present Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan who has been transferred to Chattisgarh.

The President of India appointed 12 new governors on Sunday. Abdul Nazeer was one of the five judges constitution benches that gave verdicts in the Ayodhya case.

Among other governors, Ramesh Bais will be the new Governor of Maharashtra and will replace Bhagat Singh Koshiyari. Lt General Kaiwalya Trivikram Patnaik to be the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Lakshman Prasad Acharya – Sikkim, CP Radhakrishnan – Jharkhand, Shiv Pratap Shukla – Himachal Pradesh, Gulab Chand Kataria – Assam, Sushri Anusuiya Uikye – Manipur, La Ganesan – Nagaland, Phagu Chauhan – Meghalaya, Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar – Bihar and Birg BD Mishra will be the governor of Ladakh.

Who is Abdul Nazeer?

He was enrolled as an advocate in 1983 and practiced at the Karnataka High Court. In May 2003, he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Karnataka High Court. He was later appointed as a permanent judge of the same High Court. In February 2017, Nazeer was elevated to the Supreme Court. He is the third judge ever to be elevated without serving as the chief justice of any high court.

Justice Abdul Nazeer was the lone Muslim judge in a multi-faith bench that heard the controversial Triple Talaq case in 2017. Though Nazeer and another judge upheld the validity of the practice of Triple Talaq based on the fact that it is permissible under Muslim Sharia Law, it was barred by the bench by a 3:2 majority.

Justice Nazeer was also a member of the 5 judge- bench of the historic 2019 Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya dispute, which upheld the report of ASI, which stated the existence of a Hindu structure in the disputed region. He gave the verdict in favor of Ram Mandir and thus finally ended the long dispute with 5-0 verdict.

Months before his retirement, Justice Nazeer led a Constitution bench that heard cases pertaining to the 2016 demonetization. He retired on January 4, 2023.

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