New Delhi: The Supreme Court will lend a hand to thousands suffering flood misery in Kerala with its judges participating in a fundraiser to be held in Delhi on Monday. Supreme Court judge justice K M Joseph will be among the singers at the music-dance show. Popular playback singer Mohit Chouhan will also be be performing.

Joseph will render a Malayalam song and a Hindi number. National media reported that this is for the first time in recent memory that a senior judge of the apex court will be singing at a programme of this kind.

The event is organised by media persons covering the Supreme Court and will be staged at Indian Society of International Law auditorium. Chief justice Dipak Mishra will be chief guest.

Bhadra Sinha, one of the journalists reporting from the Supreme Court, and Gouri Priya will enrich the programme with Bharat Natyam performances. Young classical dancer Keerthana Harish is also set to perform.

Justice Joseph hails from Athirampuzha, near Kottayam town. His father K K Mathew was also a judge of the Supreme Court. The 60-year-old former chief justice of Uttarakhand High Court returns to Kerala, at least, once a year to attend the annual festival of the church at Athirampuzha. At the Athirampuzha market, the Kuttiyil family to which both the jurists belong, ran businesses in the last century.

Joseph had served as a judge of the Kerala High Court for almost a decade in Kochi. He had begun practice in the Delhi High Court after enrolling as an advocate in early 1982. His father, justice Mathew, too, had a stint as a judge of the Kerala High Court before moving to the Supreme Court.

Justice Mathew had taken up several legal assignments during his stint in Delhi lasting up to 1988. They included being the chairman of the 9th Law Commission (1979-80), the Press Commission when it was reconstituted in 1980, the commission that was instituted to settle a border dispute between Punjab and Haryana, and of the commission that probed the 1975 assassination of railway minister L N Mishra in a bomb-blast at Samastipur station of Bihar.