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30th Chief Justice of India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sam Piroj Bharucha (6 May 1937) is the former Chief Justice of India, serving from November 2001 until his retirement in 2002.[2]
Sam Piroj Bharucha | |
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30th Chief Justice of India | |
In office 11 January 2001 – 6 May 2002 | |
Appointed by | K. R. Narayanan |
Preceded by | Adarsh Sein Anand |
Succeeded by | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal |
Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court[1] | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gangtok, Sikkim, British India | 6 May 1937
He began his legal career as an advocate of the Bombay High Court in 1960, and was appointed an Additional Judge in 1977. His judgeship was made permanent in 1978, and in 1991 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. In 1992, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice in 2001.[3]
Bharucha is responsible for many significant legal decisions. He was part of the five judge constitutional panel which unanimously ruled on the 2001 dismissal of J. Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. It was the first and only such dismissal of a chief minister in India's history.[4]
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