PEDDAPALLI, MAY 05, 2025: The Advocates at Manthani court in Peddapalli district on Monday observed two minutes’ silence as a mark of respect to the Telangana High Court Judge M Girija Priyadarshini, who passed away on Sunday.
Recollecting the services of Justice Priyadarshini when she worked as Karimnagar district Principal Sessions’ judge, the lawyers paid tributes to Priyadarshini. On this occasion, Principal Junior Civil Judge Nagularapu Keerthi Simha, Bar Association president KVLN Haribabu, vice president Raghotham Reddy, general secretary Sahender Reddy, and others were also present.
Priyadarshini was born to Maturi Appa Rao, a Commercial Tax Officer in Telangana, and Nagaratnam. Soon after Intermediate, she got married to Dr. K. Vijay Kumar and had two sons, Nikhil and Akhil.
Justice Priyadarsini pursued a Master of Arts in Sociology, a Master of Arts in Public Administration and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Andhra University. Later, she did her 3-year law course from N.B.M Law college, Visakhapatnam in 1995 and did her post graduation in Law (L.L.M) in Labour and Industrial Law from Andhra University in 1997. She stood first in Constitutional Law by securing the highest marks.
Justice Priyadarshini enrolled as an advocate on the rolls of the Bar Council of Andhra Pradesh in September 1995. After enrollment as an advocate, she joined the office of P. Uma Bala and worked for about 7 years.
She actively practised for more than 10 years at Vishakhapatnam and dealt with all types of cases in civil, criminal, labour law, and matrimonial matters and actively appeared in pro-bono cases referred by the District Legal Services Authority of Vishakhapatnam.
She was later selected as a District Judge by direct recruitment and joined the judicial service as an Additional District Judge on November 3, 2008. Justice Priyadarshini worked at various places in the then combined State of Andhra Pradesh. She was elevated and sworn in as a judge of the High Court for the State of Telangana on March 24, 2022.
