S.N. Dwivedi | |
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Judge of Supreme Court of India | |
Appointed by | President |
Personal details | |
Born | 1st October 1913 |
Died | 1974 |
Justice S. N. Dwivedi (Born,1 October 1913) was the Judge of the Supreme Court of India. [1]
He completed his matriculation from a Government High School,Hamirpur,pursued BA,and then LLB,and studied at Ewing Christian College,Allahabad,and the University of Lucknow. He was enrolled as a Pleader in 1937,and later as an advocate in October 1943. He had a substantial Civil Practice.
Justice S N Dwivedi worked as Junior Standing Council from November 1954 to December 1955. He served at the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (Allahabad High Court) from May 2,1959,to 14 August 1972.
He was elevated to the position of the Judge of Supreme Court on 14 August 1972 and he served until 8 December 1974. [2] [3]
He died in the office in 1974. [4]
His son Rakesh Dwivedi,practices as a senior lawyer for the Supreme Court of India [5] and her granddaughter,Divya Dwivedi is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi. [6]
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