Kailash Nath Katju was a prominent politician of India. He was the Governor of Odisha and West Bengal,the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,the Union Home Minister and the Union Defence Minister. He was also one of India's most prominent lawyers. He was part of some of the most notable cases of his times,including the Indian National Army trials. Katju joined the Indian independence movement early on and spent several years incarcerated with fellow independence activists for his activities.
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served over a period of 19 years in the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge,as chief justice of the Patna High Court,Judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd Chief Justice of India.
The Patna high Court is the High Court of the state of Bihar. It was established on 3 February 1916 and later affiliated under the Government of India Act 1915.
Anshuman Singh was an Indian politician who served as governor of Rajasthan. He was governor of the state from January 1999 to May 2003. Earlier he was governor of Gujarat state in 1998.
R. M. Lodha is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Before being elevated to the Supreme Court,he served as the chief justice of Patna High Court. He has also served as a judge in Rajasthan High Court and Bombay High Court. On 14 July 2015,the Supreme Court committee headed by RM Lodha suspended the owners of Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings from the Indian Premier League cricket tournament for a period of two years for alleged involvement in betting.
Kamal Narain Singh was the 22nd Chief Justice of India. He was educated at L.R.L.A. High School in Sirsa and Ewing Christian College in Allahabad and was a graduate of the University of Allahabad. At 17 days,his tenure as chief justice is the shortest.
Markandey Katju is an Indian jurist and former judge of Supreme Court of India who served as chairman for the Press Council of India from 2011 to 2014. He is the son of politician Shiva Nath Katju and grandson of Kailash Nath Katju. He is the founder and patron of the Indian Reunification Association (IRA),an organisation that advocates for the peaceful reunification of what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh with India under a secular government.
Vishweshwar Nath Khare is a retired Indian judge who served as the 33rd Chief Justice of India,from 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004. He also served as the Chancellor of the Central University of Jharkhand from 2017 to 2023. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak was the 18th Chief Justice of India. He was the son of Gopal Swarup Pathak,a former Vice President of India.
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha of Shahabad,Bengal Presidency was the 6th Chief Justice of India. He also served as the president of the Bharat Scouts and Guides from April 1965 to February 1967. Mr. Sinha was born and brought up in a prominent upper caste Hindu Kshatriya Rajput family of Rajwada Gajiyapur Estate,Sinha Arrah District. His grandson B. P. Singh is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Lalit Mohan Sharma was the 24th Chief Justice of India. He was the son of L.N. Sinha,former Attorney General of India. He served as Chief Justice of India from 18 November 1992 until 11 February 1993.
Chandramauli Kumar Prasad is the Chairman of the Press Council of India. Before his appointment,he served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 8 February 2010 to 14 July 2014.<ref>"Hon'ble Mr. Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
Navin Sinha is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Sinha was elevated as a judge of the Patna High Court before serving as chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court and after that as the chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court before being elevated to the Supreme Court.
Pankaj Mithal is a Judge of The Supreme Court of India. He is the former Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. Previously,he has also served as the Chief Justice of the Jammu &Kashmir and Ladakh High Court and Judge of the Allahabad High Court.
Amreshwar Pratap Sahi is an Indian judge. He is former Chief Justice of Madras High Court,and Patna High Court and Judge of Allahabad High Court.
Krishna Murari is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He has also served as a judge of the Allahabad High Court till his elevation as chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Bisheshwar Prasad Singh is an Indian Judge and former Judge of Supreme Court of India.
Vikram Nath is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court and former judge of the Allahabad High Court. He was earlier recommended as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court but the centre disapproved the recommendations. He is the first chief justice of a High Court in India to live stream its proceedings on Youtube during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Ravi Swaroop Dhavan was an Indian Judge and former Chief justice of the Patna High Court. He was the son of Justice Shanti Swaroop Dhavan,the 7th Governor of West Bengal. He was brother to Rajeev Dhavan.
