Madras High Court bids farewell to Justice RMT Teekaa Raman

CHENNAI

The Madras High Court on Friday (June 6, 2025) bid adieu to Justice RMT. Teekaa Raman who is due to retire from service on June 8, 2025 on attaining the age of superannuation. With his retirement, the working strength of the High Court would get reduced to 58 as against the sanctioned strength of 75 judges.

Delivering his farewell address, Advocate General P.S. Raman said, Justice Raman, hailing from Arcot in Vellore district, was a mathematician turned lawyer since he had obtained a bachelor’s as well a master’s degree in mathematics before pursuing law and getting enrolled with the Bar Council in 1988.

He was selected as District Judge by direct recruiment in 2004 and joined Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service in 2005. After serving in various districts across Tamil Nadu and also in the High Court Registry, he got elevated as an additional judge of the High Court in November 2016 and became permanent in 2018.

He had delivered many important verdicts including the 2023 judgement wherein he held that removal of uterus by a woman suffering from ovarian cancer would not amount to cruelty thereby entitling her husband to seek divorce on that ground. In another case, he held denying financial support to wife would amount to cruelty.

In yet another case, he ruled that a marriage between an Indian professing Hinduism with a foreigner of different faith must necessarily be registered under the Special Marriage Act of 1954 and that such a marriage could not be considered as a valid marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955.

During his stint as a High Court for more than eight years, he had disposed of 22,699 main cases and 20,851 miscellaneous petitions. While a majority of 6,908 main cases were disposed of by him individually, another 5,042 main cases were disposed of as a part of various Division Benches.

In his acceptance to the farewell address, Justice Raman thanked his mentor J. Kanagaraj, a former judge of the Madras High Court, his parents, other family members and gurus for their contributions towards his growth. He also recalled a couple of interesting criminal cases heard by him as a district judge.

Published - June 06, 2025 06:23 pm IST