Chittatosh Mookerjee (Born 1 January 1929) was the Chief Justice of the Calcutta and Bombay High Court, India. He is the grandson of Bengali scholar and educator Ashutosh Mukherjee and the nephew of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee. [1] [2]
Mookerjee was born on 1 January 1929 in Kolkata, British India. His father Rama Prasad Mukherjee was a judge of the Calcutta High Court. He passed Matriculation Examination in the First Division from Mitra Institution, Bhowanipore, got First Class in the Preliminary, Intermediate and Final Law Examinations of the Calcutta University and passed M.A. in Economics in 1951. [3] Mookerjee entered the legal profession in November 1953. [4]
He was appointed an additional judge of the Calcutta High Court in 1969, and in 1970, he became a permanent judge of the High Court. In 1986 he was elevated as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court [5] and was transferred to Bombay as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Mookerjee retired from judgeship in 1991. He was also the acting Governor of Maharashtra. [4] In 1990, he was the head of the tribunal for the Kaveri River water dispute. [6] After retirement, he became the first chairperson of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission and served there from 1995 to 1998. [7]
Syama Prasad Mukherjee was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as India's first Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. After falling out with Nehru, protesting against the Liaquat–Nehru Pact, Mukherjee resigned from Nehru's cabinet. With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in 1951.
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