Found 72 Articles for Jury & Judge

Justice Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri was born on 4th January 1889 in Mandakolathur, Tamil Nadu. He has done expertise in Tax Law. He was a member of a bench that has heard a number of famous cases where the scope of basic rights has been expanded while still adhering to the letter of the law to protect the country's inhabitants. He was preceded by Justice H. J. Kania and succeeded by Mehr Chand Mahajan. He died in New Delhi on 16th March 1963 (aged 74). Early Life and Education He was the son of renowned Sanskrit pandit Pandit Krishna Sastri and ... Read More

Justice Gopal Ballav Pattanaik born on December 19th 1937 in Odisha. He served on benches that handed down 420 judgement and a part of 3128 benches during his time on the Supreme Court. He was preceded by Justice Bhupinder Nath Kirpal and was succeeded by Justice V. N. Khare. Early Life and Education Justice G.B. Pattanaik was born and brought up in Cuttack, Odisha. He attended Ravenshaw College in Cuttack, graduated from Ewing Christian College of Allahabad University with a degree in science, and then went on to Madhusudan Law College of Odisha's Utkal University for his law degree. Career ... Read More

Justice Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha was born on February 1st 1899, in Shahabad, Bihar. He ruled mostly on civil, criminal, and constitutional cases. He was a highly pious man, maintained a peaceful life largely devoted to spiritual activities after retiring, though he did take on a few private arbitration cases. Justice wrote 137 judgments during his nine years in the Supreme Court and sat on 685 benches. He died in 1986 after becoming blind in his later years. He was preceded by Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das and succeeded by Justice P. B. Gajendragadkar. Early Life and Education Mr. Sinha was raised ... Read More

Justice Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah was born on December 18th 1924. He served on benches that handed down 720 judgements during his time in the Supreme Court. He wrote 256 of these decisions. He passed away on September 24th 1997, from a heart attack. He was preceded by Justice Raghunandan Swarup Pathak and succeeded by Justice Sabyasachi Mukharji. Early Life and Education Justice E. S. Venkataramiah has done his schooling at a government primary school in Pandavapura, graduated from the Maharaja College of Mysore, and obtained his bachelor degree in law from the Lakhamangouda Law College of Belgaum. Career Justice Justice ... Read More

Bhupinder Nath Kirpal who became the 31st Chief Justice of India, born in Lahore and brought up in Delhi where he completed his high school and college education. He began practicing law in 1962 as an attorney before being named a Delhi High Court judge in November 1979. Early Life and Education He was born in Lahore on November 8, 1937, but after the partition, he moved to Delhi. He took his school education from the Modern School in New Delhi and then attended St Stephens College at Delhi University. In the student’s life, he was a good cricket player. ... Read More

Ahmadi was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1988 after serving as a judge in the Gujarat High Court. He was later appointed Chief Justice, a position he held from 1994 until 1997. For two times, he presided as Aligarh Muslim University's chancellor. Early Life and Career Ahmadi became a member of the Bar in 1954 after completing his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In 1964, he was finally appointed as a judge of Ahmedabad's City Civil & Sessions Court. In 1974, Ahmadi was appointed Secretary of the State of Gujarat's Legal Affairs. Shortly after, in 1976, he was named ... Read More

On July 19, 1948, Altamas Kabir, was born in Calcutta, West Bengal in a Bengali Muslim Family. His father, Jehangir Kabir, was a popular Congress politician and trade union leader in West Bengal. He started his career as lawyer in 1973. Thereafter, on August 6, 1990, he was chosen to serve as a permanent judge in the Calcutta High Court and then appointed as the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court. On September 9, 2005, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India. And finally, on September 29, 2012, he was appointed as the Chief Justice ... Read More

Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was appointed as the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court where he served from 22 February 1978 to the day he retired on 11 July 1985. He was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court on 28 August 1972. He was the first appointed judge of the supreme court and is the longest-serving Chief Justice in Indian judicial history till dat. He served 7 years and 4 months in the office (of chief justice). His has been given nickname as "Iron Hands" after his well-regarded unwillingness to let anything slip past him. Personal Details ... Read More

Tirath Singh Thakur is a judge who served as the 43rd Chief Justice of India (CJI) from 3 December 2015 to 4 January 2017. Before being elevated to the Supreme Court, he served as the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court from August 2008 to November 2009 and as a senior judge of Karnataka High Court and Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Personal Details on January 4th, 1952, was born. Devi Das Thakur was the name of his father. Saraswati Thakur was his mother's name. Govt. Gandhi Memorial Science School graduate with a law degree from Jammu ... Read More

The Indian jurist and former barrister Ranjan Gogoi (born on November 18, 1954) spent seven years on the Supreme Court of India, first as a judge from 2012 to 2018 and then for 13 months as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019. On March 16, 2020, President Ram Nath Kovind nominated him to be a member of the Rajya Sabha. Gogoi was a judge on the Gauhati High Court before moving on to the Punjab and Haryana High Courts, where he later rose to the position of chief justice. He is currently a Rajya Sabha member ... Read More