Kailas Nath Wanchoo
10th Chief Justice of India
Kailas Wanchoo | |
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10th Chief Justice of India | |
In office 12 April 1967 – 24 February 1968 | |
Appointed by | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Preceded by | K. Subba Rao |
Succeeded by | M. Hidayatullah |
Judge of Supreme Court of India | |
In office 11 August 1958 – 11 April 1967 | |
Appointed by | Rajendra Prasad |
Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court | |
In office 2 January 1951 – 10 August 1958 | |
Appointed by | Rajendra Prasad |
Judge of Allahabad High Court | |
In office 17 February 1947 – 1 January 1951 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1903-02-25)25 February 1903 |
Died | 14 August 1988 (aged 85) |
Kailas Nath Wanchoo (25 February 1903 – 14 August 1988) was the tenth Chief Justice of India.
He was born in Allahabad into a Kashmiri Pandit family and was educated on primary at Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh and middle at Pandit Pirthi Nath High School, Kanpur, Muir Central College, Allahabad and Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Civil Service as Joint Magistrate on 1 December 1926 in Uttar Pradesh.
Career
In April 1967, he was sworn in as a Chief Justice of India following the retirement of Koka Subba Rao from the position on announcing his presidential campaign.[1]
Official positions
- Allahabad High Court Judge, Feb. 1947-Jan. 1951
- Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice 1951-58
- Uttar Pradesh Judicial Reforms Committee Chairman, 1950–51
- Indore Firing Inquiry Commission Sole Member, 1954
- Dholpur Succession Case Commission Chairman, 1955
- Law Commission Member, 1955.
- Chief Justice of India on 12 April 1967. Retired 24 February 1968.
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Preceded by | Chief Justice of India 12 April 1967 – 24 February 1968 | Succeeded by |
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- H. J. Kania
- M. Patanjali Sastri
- Mehr Chand Mahajan
- Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
- Sudhi Ranjan Das
- Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
- P. B. Gajendragadkar
- Amal Kumar Sarkar
- Koka Subba Rao
- Kailas Nath Wanchoo
- Mohammad Hidayatullah
- Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah
- Sarv Mittra Sikri
- A. N. Ray
- Mirza Hameedullah Beg
- Y. V. Chandrachud
- P. N. Bhagwati
- Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
- E. S. Venkataramiah
- Sabyasachi Mukharji
- Ranganath Misra
- Kamal Narain Singh
- Madhukar Hiralal Kania
- Lalit Mohan Sharma
- M. N. Venkatachaliah
- Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
- J. S. Verma
- Madan Mohan Punchhi
- Adarsh Sein Anand
- Sam Piroj Bharucha
- Bhupinder Nath Kirpal
- Gopal Ballav Pattanaik
- V. N. Khare
- S. Rajendra Babu
- Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
- Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal
- K. G. Balakrishnan
- S. H. Kapadia
- Altamas Kabir
- P. Sathasivam
- Rajendra Mal Lodha
- H. L. Dattu
- T. S. Thakur
- Jagdish Singh Khehar
- Dipak Misra
- Ranjan Gogoi
- Sharad Bobde
- N. V. Ramana
- Uday Umesh Lalit
- Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud (incumbent)
References
- ^ "India's Chief Justice". The Guardian. 25 April 1967. p. 22. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
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