NEW DELHI: A Karnataka High Court judge is upset that his junior superseded him to be appointed to the Supreme Court and has declined an offer to head the Madras High Court.Justice HG Ramesh also questioned the promotion of Justice S Abdul Nazeer of the Karnataka High Court on the grounds of giving representation to a minority community, a legal luminary told ET.“The Constitution of India doesn’t provide for reservation on the basis of religion or caste in the matter of appointment of judges to the high court and Supreme Court,” Ramesh said in a letter to Chief Justice of India JS Khehar on February 16.“My supersession on ground of giving representation to a minority in the Supreme Court by recommending the name of a judge, who is junior to me, is certainly not correct.”The letter was written a day before Nazeer was sworn in as ajudge of the apex court. It was a rare instance of a judge who is not chief justice of a high court to be appointed to the SC.Nazeer was sworn in along with Justices Naveen Sinha, Dipak Gupta, Mohan M Shantangoudar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul . Shantangoudar was also a judge of the Karnataka High Court. Both Nazeer and Shantangoudar will serve until 2023.When ET contacted Ramesh’s office, a staff member said, “His lordship is unavailable.”A number of calls were made to the residence of Khehar, who also was not available to comment on the matter. Khehar and his predecessor TS Thakur were both appointed to the Supreme Court from the Karnataka High Court.The Supreme Court collegium had recommended that Ramesh become the chief justice of the Madras High Court, a position he declined to accept.The post fell vacant after Kaul was promoted to the Supreme Court. “I request lordships to deny me the honour of becoming chief justice of Madras High Court,” Ramesh said.Following Ramesh’s refusal, the collegium recommended that Justice Indira Banerjee of the Delhi High Court take over as chief justice of the Madras High Court.According to the Karnataka High Court website, Ramesh enrolled as an advocate in July 1982, whereas Nazeer enrolled seven months later. Both were appointed additional judges on May 12, 2003, and as permanent judges of the court on September 24, 2004.