TRIBUTE PAID TO
FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
PARIPOORNAN
Former Supreme Court judge KS Paripoornan passed away at a
private hospital on 3rd
February,2016,Wednesday night. He was under treatment and death occurred due to
multiple organ failure, hospital sources said.Justice Paripoornan was admitted
to the hospital on Tuesday with an infection to the lungs and with complaints
on functioning of kidneys and heart. His condition worsened and he was put on
ventilator support by Wednesday.
Krishnaswami Sundara Paripoornan was born on June 12, 1932
and had enrolled as an advocate in the High Court of Travancore-Cochin in 1956.
He practiced civil, taxation, and general matters at the high court and had
been a government counsel at the high court from 1966 to 1980. He was appointed
as a judge of the Kerala High Court in December 1982 and later became the chief
justice of Patna high court in January 1994. He was elevated as a Supreme Court
judge in June 1994 and retired in June 1997. He was residing at Ammankovil Road
in Kochi.Former Supreme Court judge KT Thomas, who had served as a judge of the
Kerala high court and the Supreme Court along with justice Paripoornan, had
talked about him in his memoir 'Honeybees of Solomon' and had termed the
relationship as "a rare privilege". "He was regarded as a wizard
in income tax law and his knowledge in Hindu philosophy is amazingly
prodigious," justice Thomas had said about justice Paripoornan in his
memoir.
Talking to TOI about justice Paripoornan's demise, justice
Thomas said, "We had been together as judges of a division bench for a
very long time. We were the only ones who were Supreme Court judges from Kerala
at the same time. So we were personally very close to each other. I have not
seen a person more scholarly than him and I doubt whether the Kerala high court
had anybody more scholarly than him. He was the one who introduced to the high
court the practice of summoning government secretaries directly to the court if
orders are not implemented. He was very strict and secretaries used to be
afraid to appear before him. Summoning of government officials to court proved
to be very effective during his time." 83-year-old Paripoornan was
admitted to Medical Trust Hospital here last night due to kidney and heart
related problems. He died at 9.05 pm tonight, the sources said.He began his
career as an advocate in the High Court of then Travancore-Cochin in 1956.He practised
in civil, taxation and general matters in the Kerala High Court and
occasionally in the Supreme Court and Tribunal also.He worked as Government
counsel in the Kerala High Court from 1966 to 1980. He was appointed a
permanent Judge of the Kerala High Court in 1982 and served as Chief Justice of
the Patna High Court in 1994.In June, 1994, he was appointed Judge of the
Supreme Court.Justice Paripoornan retired from the Supreme Court in 1997.
Prof. John Kurakar
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