Kailas Nath Wanchoo

10th Chief Justice of India

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.

References

1. "India's Chief Justice". The Guardian. 25 April 1967. p. 22. Retrieved 5 June 2024.