| Name(s) |
SAROSH HOMI (S.H.)
KAPADIA |
| Date of
Birth |
September 29, 1947
- born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. |
| Date of
Death |
January 04, 2016 |
|
Identity |
Indian lawyer,
judge; 38th Chief Justice of India. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- September 10, 1974: He joined as
an advocate in the Bombay High Court on this day.
- October 08, 1991: He was
appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on
this day.
- March 23, 1993: He was appointed
as a permanent judge.
- August 05, 2003: He became the Chief
Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
- December 17, 2003: He
retired as the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
- December 18, 2003: He was
appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court.
- April 30, 2005: He
delivered a landmark judgement relating to succession of
property in which he ruled out the possibility of conducting
the DNA test.
- May 12, 2010: He was sworn in as
the Chief Justice of India by the then President Pratibha
Patil.
- September 28, 2012: He
retired from the office of the Chief Justice of India.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He started his career as a class IV employee.
- He later became a law clerk in a lawyer's office in
Mumbai and later went on to work with Feroze Damania who was
a highly respected "firebrand" labour lawyer.
- His famous quotes:
- "I am proud to be an Indian. India is the only
country where a member of the minority Parsi community
with a population of 1,67,000, like myself, can aspire
to attain the post of the Chief Justice of India. These
things do not happen in our neighbouring countries."
Chief Justice Kapadia speaking at the Independence Day
celebrations in the Supreme Court.
- "I come from a poor family. I started my career as a
class IV employee and the only asset I possess is
integrity"
- "Right to life, we have said, includes environmental
protection, right to live with dignity. Now we have
included right to sleep, where are we going? It is not a
criticism. Is it capable of being enforced? When you
expand the right, the judge must explore the
enforceability." Chief Justice Kapadia during a lecture
on "Jurisprudence of Constitutional Structure".
- "A day might come when the rule of law will stand
reduced to a rope of sand." Justice Kapadia reacting to
a flood of Public Interest Litigations (PIL) being filed
in the Supreme Court against corruption and non
performing government authorities.
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