JAMMU: Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed was today sworn in as the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
Governor N.N. Vohra administered the oath of office to Justice Ahmed at a ceremony at the Raj Bhavan here.
The Warrant of Appointment of Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed as Chief Justice of the J&K High Court was read out by the Registrar Vigilance Sanjay Dhar who was Incharge Registrar General of the High Court.
Vohra congratulated Justice Ahmed, who will be the 33rd Chief Justice of the state, and wished him a successful tenure.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Deputy CM Nirmal Singh, Speaker Kavinder Gupta, Legislative Council Chairman Haji Anayat Ali, state cabinet ministers, senior advocates, and friends and family members of Justice Ahmed were present on the occasion.
Serving and retired judges of the Supreme Court and J&K High Court, the Chief Secretary, the Director General of Police, high-ranking civil, judicial and police officers were also present
After the Oath Ceremony, Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed visited the J&K High Court where Guard of Honour was presented.
Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, son of Former President Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, was born on 16th March, 1956 at Shillong in Meghalaya.
Justice Ahmed enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1980 and started practicing in the Supreme Court and Delhi HC.
Justice Ahmed is keenly interested in computers and knows several computer programming languages including Assembly, C Basic, Visual Basic and dialects of Dbase (including Clipper) and has written two stand-alone accounting software packages for lawyers: ACT-C and ACT-S.
Justice B.D. Ahmed sworn in as J&K 33rd Chief Justice
