After being issued with the transfer to Meghalaya High court, the current Chief Justice of Madras High court V K Tahilramani had decided to quit from one of the highly ranked posts in judiciary as what it appears to be move taken in the wake of being transferred to Meghalaya High court by the Supreme court collegium.

Justice Tahilramani has been holding the office of Chief Justice of Madras High court since August 8th 2018 after being transferred from the post of acting Chief Justice in Mumbai High court. After her one year mark in Madras High court, one of the nation's prestigious and well renowned judicial institution, the Supreme court collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India had furnished its recommendations to Rashtrapati Bhavan directing to transfer Tahilramani to Meghalaya High court and replacing her with the current Meghalaya Chief Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal.

After being recommended to get transferred from one of the country's top high courts to relatively smaller high court, she had written to the Supreme court collegium which comprises of five Supreme court justices for reconsidering the transfer which eventually got rejected by the collegium which had lived up with its recommendations to put Tahilramani as Chief Justice of Meghalaya High court, which was constituted in 2013 and now has only three justices including the Chief Justice. It has reported that the High court of Meghalaya rests with only thousands of pending cases which is far less than the count in rest of the high courts.

In the wake of having her reconsidering request rejected by the collegium, the sources from the Madras High court had cited that Justice Tahilramani will put her papers instead of getting transferred to relatively smaller court. The reports say with conformity that she had sent her resignation letter to the President of India along with copying to the Chief Justice of India.

While Meghalaya High court has chaired three justices, the Madras High court have totally of 75 justices including Chief Justice while the seats of 60 justices were currently filled whereas the remaining seats are still vacant.