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Tushar Rao Gedela (born 18 July 1967) is an Indian jurist who has been serving as the judge of the Delhi High Court since 18 May 2022.

Early life and education

Gedela was born on 18 July 1967 and attended the Army Public School in Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. He pursued a degree in political science (Hons) from Deshbandhu College, Delhi University, followed by a BA LL.B. from Chaudhary Charan Singh University in 1993.

Career

Gedela enrolled with the Delhi Bar Council in 1994 and began his career at the district courts in Tis Hazari, specialising in civil, criminal, and family law. In 1997, he joined the office of Shri M. Chandrashekharan, former additional solicitor general of India, focusing on customs and excise matters. Later, he worked with Justice M. N. Rao (Retd.), former chief justice of the Shimla High Court, where he handled service-related cases. Gedela primarily practised in the Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court, TDSAT, and the Armed Forces Tribunal.

In 2000, he was appointed as central government counsel in the Delhi High Court, serving until 2003. He was later appointed as senior panel counsel for the central government at the Delhi High Court in 2014 and as panel 'A' counsel for the Supreme Court of India in 2015, holding these positions until his designation as a senior advocate in March 2021. Gedela was appointed as a permanent judge of the Delhi High Court on 18 May 2022.

Cases

Gedela was part of a bench that dismissed an appeal on 3 July 2024, seeking the debarment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Lok Sabha. The petitioner, Captain Deepak Kumar, who had been the pilot of the Air India flight in question, alleged that Modi was involved in a plot to cause a fatal air crash and accused him of anti-national activities. The court, however, questioned the mental health of the petitioner, directing local authorities to monitor him under the Mental Health Act.

On 14 October 2024, a Delhi High Court Bench comprising acting chief justice Manmohan and Gedela criticised Misplaced Pages for hosting a page titled Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation related to an ongoing defamation lawsuit filed by Asian News International (ANI) against the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). The page claimed that the court had threatened to block Misplaced Pages in India if certain editor identities were not disclosed, which the court found objectionable. The court warned that if the page was not removed, it might not hear Misplaced Pages's appeal. The lawsuit concerns ANI's defamation allegations over edits to its Misplaced Pages page, which ANI claims falsely labelled it as a state-sponsored propaganda tool for the incumbent BJP government of Narendra Modi.

References

1. ^ "Justice Tushar Rao Gedela". CDJ Law Journal. 23 July 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
2. "'Are you well?' Delhi HC asks man seeking to debar PM Modi from Lok Sabha". The Hindu. 3 July 2024. Archived from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
3. "Delhi HC slams Misplaced Pages for its dedicated page on the ongoing lawsuit against it by ANI". The Hindu. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

• 1967 births
• Living people
• 20th-century Indian lawyers
• 21st-century Indian judges
• Judges of the Delhi High Court
• Delhi University alumni
• Chaudhary Charan Singh University alumni