Justice Ahmed may take over J&K CJ next week

JAMMU: The President of India is believed to have signed the warrant of appointment of Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed as Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Justice Ahmed is currently a Judge of the Delhi High Court.
Sources said Justice Ahmed could take oath of Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court early next week. Incidentally, Justice Ahmed happens to be son of Fakharuddin Ali Ahmed, the President of India between 1974 and 1977.
Enrolled as an Advocate on 5.9.1980 with the Bar Council of Delhi, he started practice in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court. Initially joined the chamber of Siddhartha Shanker Ray, Bar-at-Law (Senior Advocate) for about three years and thereafter he practiced law independently. In 1986 he set up a law firm under the name of Lawyers Associated. Was partner in the firm till March, 2000. Thereafter, practiced in the Supreme Court and other High Courts as counsel and also advised on various aspects of law relating to finance, companies, properties, banking, contracts and other areas of commercial and civil law. Also has a keen interest in Personal Laws including Muslim Personal Law and has written several articles in this connection. Has contributed the section on Deeds and other instruments for Halsbury's Law of India. He 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. Till his elevation as an additional Judge of the Delhi High Court on 20th December, 2002, he was also the Secretary of Ghalib Institute, New Delhi. He is a keen sportsman and played Cricket and Football for the school. Was member of the St Stephen's College Tennis Team and played Tennis and Squash for Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K.