Surrounded by luminaries, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s family, and with his hand placed on the Bhagwad Gita, Srikanth Srinivasan was formally sworn in as judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

At 5 pm on Thursday (EST), with his hand placed on the Bhagwad Gita held by his mother Saroja Srinivasan, Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan, 46, was formally sworn in as the new federal judge in the United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, the second most powerful court in the US after the Supreme Court, by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at the Ceremonial Courtroom on the E Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse.