List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India

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The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its induction on 28 January 1950. A total of 209 judges have served in the court. The list has been arranged on the basis of seniority with chief justices having been mentioned first.

Former Chief Justices

S.no. Name of the Justice Date of appointment Date of appointment as CJI Date of retirement
CJ-1 H. J. Kania 26 January 1950 26 January 1950 6 November 1951
CJ-2 M. Patanjali Sastri 26 January 1950 7 November 1951 3 January 1954
CJ-3 Mehr Chand Mahajan 26 January 1950 4 January 1954 22 December 1954
CJ-4 Bijan Kumar Mukherjea 26 January 1950 23 December 1954 31 January 1956
CJ-5 Sudhi Ranjan Das 26 January 1950 1 February 1956 30 September 1959
CJ-6 Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha 3 December 1954 1 October 1959 31 January 1964
CJ-7 P. B. Gajendragadkar 17 January 1957 1 February 1964 15 March 1966
CJ-8 Amal Kumar Sarkar 3 April 1957 16 March 1966 29 June 1966
CJ-9 Koka Subba Rao 31 January 1958 30 June 1966 11 April 1967‡
CJ-10 Kailas Nath Wanchoo 8 November 1958 12 April 1967 24 February 1968
CJ-11 Mohammad Hidayatullah[1] 1 December 1958 25 February 1968 16 December 1970
CJ-12 Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah 10 December 1959 17 December 1970 21 January 1971
CJ-13 Sarv Mittra Sikri 2 March 1964 22 January 1971 25 April 1973
CJ-14 A. N. Ray 8 January 1969 26 April 1973 27 January 1977
CJ-15 Mirza Hameedullah Beg 12 December 1971 28 1977 21 February 1978
CJ-16 Y. V. Chandrachud 28 August 1972 22 February 1978 11 July 1985
CJ-17 P. N. Bhagwati 17 July 1973 12 July 1985 20 December 1986
CJ-18 Raghunandan Swarup Pathak 20 February 1978 21 December 1986 18 June 1989
CJ-19 Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah 8 March 1979 19 June 1989 17 December 1989
CJ-20 Sabyasachi Mukharji 15 March 1983 18 December 1989 25 September 1990
CJ-21 Ranganath Misra 15 March 1983 26 September 1990 24 November 1991
CJ-22 Kamal Narain Singh 3 October 1986 25 November 1991 12 December 1991
CJ-23 Madhukar Hiralal Kania 5 January 1987 13 December 1991 17 November 1992
CJ-24 Lalit Mohan Sharma 10 May 1987 18 November 1992 11 February 1993
CJ-25 M. N. Venkatachaliah 10 May 1987 12 February 1993 24 October 1994
CJ-26 Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi 14 December 1988 25 October 1994 24 March 1997
CJ-27 Jagdish Sharan Verma 6 March 1989 25 March 1997 17 January 1998
CJ-28 Madan Mohan Punchhi 10 June 1989 18 January 1998 9 October 1998
CJ-29 Adarsh Sein Anand 18 November 1991 10 October 1998 31 October 2001
CJ-30 Sam Piroj Bharucha 7 January 1992 1 November 2001 5 May 2002
CJ-31 Bhupinder Nath Kirpal 9 November 1995 6 May 2002 7 November 2002
CJ-32 Gopal Ballav Pattanaik 9 November 1995 8 November 2002 18 December 2002
CJ-33 V. N. Khare 21 March 1997 19 December 2002 1 May 2004
CJ-34 S. Rajendra Babu 25 September 1997 2 May 2004 31 May 2004
CJ-35 Ramesh Chandra Lahoti 12 September 1998 1 June 2004 31 October 2005
CJ-36 Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal 28 January 2000 1 November 2005 13 January 2007
CJ-37 K. G. Balakrishnan 6 August 2000 14 January 2007 12 May 2010
CJ-38 S. H. Kapadia 18 December 2003 12 May 2010 28 September 2012
CJ-39 Altamas Kabir 9 September 2005 29 September 2012 18 July 2013
CJ-40 P. Sathasivam 21 August 2007 19 July 2013 26 April 2014
CJ-41 Rajendra Mal Lodha 17 December 2008 27 April 2014 27 September 2014
CJ-42 H. L. Dattu 17 December 2008 28 September 2014 2 December 2015
CJ-43 T. S. Thakur 17 November 2009 3 December 2015 3 January 2017
CJ-44 Jagdish Singh Khehar 13 September 2011 4 January 2017 27 August 2017
CJ-45 Dipak Misra 10 October 2011 28 August 2017 2 October 2018

Former Justices

S.no. Name Date of Appointment Date of Retirement
1 Syed Fazl Ali[2] 15 October 1951 30 May 1952
2 N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar[3] 23 September 1950 24 January 1953
3 Vivian Bose[4] 5 March 1951 9 June 1956
4 Ghulam Hasan 8 September 1952 5 November 1954
5 Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati 8 September 1952 6 June 1959
6 B. Jagannadhadas 9 March 1953 26 July 1958
7 T. L. Venkatarama Aiyyar 4 January 1954 24 November 1958
8 Syed Jaffer Imam 10 January 1955 31 January 1964
9 S. K. Das 30 April 1956 2 September 1963
10 P. Govinda Menon 1 September 1956 16 October 1957
11 J. L. Kapur 14 January 1957 12 December 1962
12 K. C. Das Gupta 24 August 1959 2 January 1965
13 Raghubar Dayal 27 July 1960 25 October 1965
14 N. Rajagopala Ayyangar 27 July 1960 14 December 1964
15 J. R. Mudholkar 3 October 1960 3 July 1966
16 R. S. Bachawat 7 September 1964 31 July 1969
17 V. Ramaswami 4 January 1965 29 October 1969
18 P. Satyanarayana Raju 20 October 1965 20 April 1966
19 J. M. Shelat 24 February 1966 30 April 1973
20 Vishishtha Bhargava 8 August 1966 4 February 1971
21 G. K. Mitter 29 August 1966 23 September 1971
22 C. A. Vaidyialingam 10 October 1966 29 June 1972
23 K. S. Hegde 17 July 1967 30 April 1973
24 A. N. Grover 11 February 1968 31 May 1973
25 P. Jaganmohan Reddy 1 August 1969 22 January 1975
26 I. D. Dua 1 August 1969 3 October 1972
27 Subimal Chandra Roy 19 June 1971 12 November 1971
28 D. G. Palekar 19 July 1971 3 September 1974
29 Hans Raj Khanna 22 September 1971 11 March 1977
30 Kuttyil Kurien Mathew 4 October 1971 2 January 1976
31 S. N. Dwivedi 14 August 1972 8 December 1974
32 A. K. Mukherjea 14 August 1972 23 October 1973
33 A. Alagiriswami 17 October 1972 16 October 1975
34 V. R. Krishna Iyer 17 July 1973 14 November 1980
35 P. K. Goswami 10 September 1973 31 December 1977
36 R. S. Sarkaria 17 September 1973 15 January 1981
37 A. C. Gupta 2 September 1974 31 December 1981
38 N. L. Untwalia 3 October 1974 31 July 1980
39 Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali[5] 2 April 1975 20 August 1985
40 P. N. Shingal 6 November 1975 14 October 1980
41 Jaswant Singh 23 January 1976 24 January 1979
42 P.S. Kailasam 3 January 1977 11 September 1980
43 V. D. Tulzapurkar 30 September 1977 8 March 1986
44 D. A. Desai 30 September 1977 8 May 1985
45 A. D. Koshal 17 July 1978 6 March 1982
46 O. Chinnappa Reddy 17 July 1978 24 September 1987
47 A. P. Sen 17 July 1978 19 September 1988
48 Baharul Islam[6] 4 December 1980 12 January 1983
49 A. Varadarajan 10 December 1980 16 August 1985
50 Amarendra Nath Sen 28 January 1981 30 September 1985
51 V. Balakrishna Eradi 30 January 1981 18 June 1987
52 R. B. Misra 30 January 1981 14 June 1986
53 D. P. Madon 15 March 1983 6 April 1986
54 M. P. Thakkar 15 March 1983 3 November 1988
55 V. Khalid 25 June 1984 30 June 1987
56 G. L. Oza 29 October 1985 11 December 1989
57 B. C. Ray 29 October 1985 31 October 1991
58 M. M. Dutt[7] 10 March 1986 29 October 1989
59 S. Natarajan 10 March 1986 28 October 1989
60 K. Jagannatha Shetty 1 May 1987 14 December 1991
61 S. Ranganathan 5 October 1987 30 October 1992
62 D.N. Ojha 18 January 1988 18 January 1991
63 S. Ratnavel Pandian 14 December 1988 12 March 1994
64 T.K. Thommen 14 December 1988 25 September 1993
65 K.N. Saikia 14 December 1988 28 February 1991
66 Kuldip Singh[8] 14 December 1988 21 December 1996
67 V. Ramaswami 6 October 1989 14 February 1994
68 P. B. Sawant[9] 6 October 1989 29 June 1995
69 Narendra Mohan Kasliwal[10] 6 October 1989 3 April 1993
70 K. Ramaswamy 6 October 1989 12 July 1997
71 Fathima Beevi[11] 6 October 1989 29 April 1992
72 K. Jayachandra Reddy 11 January 1990 14 July 1994
73 S.C. Agrawal 11 January 1990 4 September 1998
74 R.M. Sahai 11 January 1990 24 June 1995
75 Yogeshwar Dayal 22 March 1991 2 August 1994
76 S. Mohan 7 October 1991 10 February 1995
77 B.P. Jeevan Reddy 7 October 1991 13 March 1997
78 Ganendra Narayan Ray[12] 7 October 1991 30 April 1998
79 R.C. Patnaik 3 December 1991 30 May 1992
80 N.P. Singh 15 June 1992 24 December 1996
81 N. Venkatachala 1 July 1992 2 July 1995
82 M.K. Mukherjee 14 December 1993 30 November 1998
83 Faizanuddin 14 December 1993 4 February 1997
84 B.L. Hansaria 14 December 1993 24 December 1996
85 S.C. Sen 11 June 1994 20 December 1997
86 K.S. Paripoornan 11 June 1994 11 June 1997
87 S.B. Majmudar 19 September 1994 19 August 2000
88 Sujata V. Manohar[13] 8 November 1994 27 August 1999
89 G. T. Nanavati[14] 6 March 1995 16 February 2000
90 S. Saghir Ahmad 6 March 1995 30 June 2000
91 K. Venkataswami 6 March 1995 18 September 1999
92 Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar[15] 29 March 1996 15 January 2000
98 Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri[16] 4 December 1997 5 April 2003
101 Umesh Chandra Banerjee[17] 9 December 1998 17 November 2002
102 N. Santosh Hegde[18] 8 January 1999 16 June 2005
103 Ram Prakash Sethi[19] 8 January 1999 6 July 2002
135 Cyriac Joseph[20] 7 July 2008 27 January 2012
137 Dalveer Bhandari [21][22] 28 October 2005 27 April 2012
144 Gyan Sudha Misra[23] 30 April 2010 27 April 2014
148 Balbir Singh Chauhan[24] 11 May 2009 1 July 2014
149 Chandramauli Kumar Prasad[25] 8 February 2010 14 July 2014
150 Ranjana P. Desai[26] 13 September 2011 29 October 2014
151 Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya[27] 13 September 2011 14 March 2015
152 Vikramajit Sen 24 December 2012 30 December 2015
153 M. Y. Eqbal 24 December 2012 31 December 2015
154 Prafulla Chandra Pant 13 August 2014 29 August 2017
155 Amitava Roy 27 February 2015 1 March 2018

See also

References

  1. ↑ Also served as Acting President of India and Vice-President of India.
  2. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Sir Syed Fazl Ali". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Vivian Bose". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 22 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. Murtaza Fazal Ali". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Baharul Islam". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.M. Dutt". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 14 September 2011.
  8. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kuldip Singh". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
  9. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice P.B. Sawant". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2011.
  10. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Narendra Monhan Kasliwal". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2011.
  11. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Ms. Justice M. Fathima Beevi". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice G.N. Ray". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2011.
  13. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Sujata V. Manohar". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013.
  14. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice G.T. Nanavati". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 12 May 2011.
  15. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.P. Kurdukar". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 12 May 2011.
  16. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.S.M. Quadri". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 12 May 2011.
  17. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble U.C. Banerjee". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 14 February 2011.
  18. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble N. Santosh Hegde". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 14 February 2011.
  19. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble R.P. Sethi". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 14 February 2011.
  20. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Cyriac Joseph". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012.
  21. ↑ "Dalveer Bhandari". Wikipedia. 2018-05-04.
  22. ↑ "FORMER JUSTICES | Supreme Court of India". www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  23. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 22 July 2014.
  24. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Balbir Singh Chauhan". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 7 August 2014.
  25. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Chandramauli Kumar Prasad". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 7 August 2014.
  26. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 26 March 2015.
  27. ↑ "Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
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