JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY
Date of Birth : 01-02-1960
Assumed Office : 23-09- 2019
Retires on: 31-01- 2025
No. of Judgements authored : 70
JUDGEMENTS:
- State of Uttar Pradesh v Lalta Prasad Vaish
State’s power to regulate industrial alcohol
- Property Owners Association v State of Maharashtra
Nature of Private Property
- Mineral Area Development Authority v Steel Authority of India
Nature of royalty paid by mine leaseholders
- Bajaj Allianz General Insurance v Rambha Devi
Validity of ‘Light Motor Vehicle’ Licence to Drive ‘Transport Vehicle’
- Central Organisation For Railway Electrification v ECL-SPIC-SMO-MCML (JV), JSW Steel Limited v South Western Railway
Appointment of Arbitrators by Ineligible Persons
- Cox and Kings Ltd. v SAP India Pvt. Ltd.
Group of Companies Doctrine in Arbitration Proceedings
- Animal Welfare Board v Union Of India
Challenge to the Practice of Jallikattu
- Tej Prakash Pathak v Rajasthan High Court
Altering Rules on Appointment to Public Posts
- Anoop Baranwal v Union of India
Election Commission Appointments
- Municipal Corporation of Bombay v Ankita Sinha
Suo Moto Powers of the National Green Tribunal
- Common Cause v Union of India
Euthanasia and the Right to Die with Dignity
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Justice Hrishikesh Roy was born in Assam in the year 1960 and completed his schooling from Delhi Public School, Mathura road. He completed his LLB degree from Campus Law Centre, Delhi in 1982. He started his practice before the Delhi High Court and later started practicing before the Guwahati High Court, thereafter he was designated as the senior counsel in the year 2004 and sworn in as an additional judge of the Guwahati High Court , on 12-10-2006 and eventually served as a permanent judge from 15th July,2008.
JUSTICE ROY : A REFORMATIVE JUDGE
- The Mediation Monitoring Committee under his guidance produced a film named- ‘Shako’ for training in mediation.
- He was the judge in charge at the administrative department at the gauhati high court.
- The Arunachal Pradesh Legal Service Authority also which produced a short film called ‘Apne Ajnabi‘ to highlight how legal help can be provided to victims of racial discrimination under his guidance.
- Justice Roy implemented the “Reach Out & Respond” programme as the Executive Head of the Assam State Legal Services Authority.
Justice Hrishikesh Roy was elevated to the Supreme Court on September 23, 2019, after serving as Chief Justice for a year. He was elevated alongside Justices Krishna Murari, S.R. Bhat, and V. Ramasubramanian.At the time, former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, the only judge from Assam, was nearing retirement in three months.
Currently, Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Ujjal Bhuyan, who joined the Supreme Court in July 2023, are the two judges representing Gauhati. Justice Roy is set to retire in January 2025 after completing a tenure of over four years on the Supreme Court bench.
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