- Arijit Pasayat
Arijit Pasayat (born 10.5.1944) is currently a judge on the Supreme Court of India.
- B.N. Srikrishna
Justice B.N. Srikrishna (born May 21, 1941) is an Indian jurist and a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India. From 1993-98, he headed the well-known Commission of Inquiry, the "Srikrishna Commission" as it became known, which investigated causes and apportioned blame for the Bombay Riots of 1992-93.
- H.S.Bedi
Justice H.S.Bedi, M.A., LL.B., was born on September 5, 1946. He belongs to a family of Agriculturists from Sahiwal (formerly known as Montgomery), now in Pakistan. He is a descendant of Guru Nanak, being number 17 in the direct line. His father Tikka Jagjit Singh Bedi was also a Judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court and retired in 1969. Justice Bedi had his schooling from Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and did his Senior Cambridge in 1962.
- V. R. Krishna Iyer
Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer (b. 14 November 1915) was born in the district of Palakkad now in Kerala, India. His father V. V. Rama Iyer was a lawyer. He studied and graduated in Arts from Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu, studied at Madras Law College for a Bachelor of Law. In 1938, he enrolled as an advocate and was appointed to Ernakulam High Court.He also practised in the Thalesseri District Court.
- C.K. Thakker
Justice C.K. Thakker (born November 10, 1943) is a judge in the Supreme Court of India. Justice Thakker was born at Mander near Porbandar in the State of Gujarat. He took primary education in Mander and Madhavpur, graduated from Bahauddin College, Junagadh and obtained an LL.B. degree from M.P. Shah Law College, Jamnagar. He obtained LL.M. Degree from Gujarat University, and started his practice from 1968 in the High Court of Gujarat.
- R.V. Raveendran
Justice R.V Raveendran is a sitting judge in the Supreme Court of India. He was inducted to the Karnataka High Court in 1992. He became the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in 2004, and was elevated to the Supreme Court of India in October 2005.
- Arun Jaitley
Arun Jaitley (born December 28, 1952), is an Indian politician and has served as a minister for commerce, industry, law and justice of the Union Government of India. He was born in New Delhi. He did his schooling from St. Xavier's School, New Delhi, finishing school in 1969-70. He graduated in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi (1973). He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 1977.
- Salwa Judum
Salwa Judum (translates as "peace mission") is a civil militia supported by the state government in Indian state of Chhattisgarh State. It was formed in 2005, to bring the area infiltrated by Maoist Naxalites under control for economic development. Originally, the Salwa Judum was claimed to be a spontaneous uprising of civilians, especially tribals, affected by the Naxalite activites in the region.
- Soli Sorabjee
Soli Jehangir Sorabjee (born 9 March, 1930) is an Indian jurist.
- Justice A.S. Anand
Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand (born November 1, 1936) was the Chief justice of Supreme Court of India, from October 10, 1998 to October 31, 2001. Justice Anand completed his studies in Jammu, Lucknow University, and London, and enrolled as Advocate Bar Council on November 9, 1964. Having practised in Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Election Law at the Punjab and Haryana High Court, he was appointed as Additional Judge, Jammu and Kashmir High Court from May 26, 1975.
- Teesta Setalvad
Teesta Setalvad (b 9 February 1962) is a Mumbai based Indian civil rights activist, journalist and educationist. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Bombay University in 1983 and started work as a journalist. She reported for the Mumbai editions of The Daily (India) and The Indian Express newspapers, and then for Business India magazine. Appalled by the communal violence during the Bombay Riots, she, along with activist husband Javed Anand, …
- Mohammad Afzal
Mohammad Afzal also known as Afzal Guru is an Indian from Kashmir accused and convicted of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. In 2004, he was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India. The sentence was to be carried out on 20 October, 2006. The sentence is now stayed, after his family filed a mercy petition to the President. There is pressure to issue clemency to Afzal from political groups in Kashmir, …
- Ruma Pal
Justice Ruma Pal (born June 3, 1941) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India until her retirement on June 3, 2006. Ms. Pal read for her B.C.L degree at Oxford University and started practice in 1968 in Civil, Revenue, Labour and Constitutional matters in the Calcutta High Court. After a long and distinguished career as an advocate she was appointed Judge in the Calcutta High Court on August 6, 1990. She was appointed to Supreme court of India on January 28, 2000, …
- G. B. Pattanaik
Justice Gopal Ballav Pattanaik was born on 19 December 1937 in the city of Cuttack, state of Orissa, India. He attended Ravenshaw College in Cuttack and Allahabad University and earned his law degree from M.S Law College, Utkal University in Orissa. In 1962 He enrolled as an advocate for the High Court of Orissa and practised in civil, criminal, constitutional and business cases in Orissa High Court. He also appeared before the Supreme Court of India.
- K. S. Hegde
K. S. Hegde was speaker of Lok Sabha from 1977 to 1980. Earlier he was a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was born in 1909 and died in 1990. He was from Karnataka.
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (August 14, 1965 in Kuludihi, West Bengal, India - August 14, 2004 at Alipore Central Jail in Calcutta, India) was a security guard who was executed by hanging for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 at her apartment residence in Bhowanipur. Chatterjee, whose mercy plea was rejected on August 4, was kept at Alipore for nearly 14 years.
- Vineet Narain
Vineet Narain (b. 1956) is a prominent Indian journalist and anti-corruption activist. His exposure of the 1990s Hawala scandal led him to use a public interest petition to put pressure on the Central Bureau of Investigation. The CBI was widely criticised when its prosecutions collapsed, and the Supreme Court of India in deciding the Vineet Narain Case made directions that included new supervision of the CBI by the Central Vigilance Commission.
- G. T. Nanavati
Girish Thakorlal Nanavati (born 1935 in Jambusar, Gujarat) is a retired judge from the Supreme Court of India. After his retirement he has headed two commissions inquiring into the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots and the Godhra riots.
- Sujata Manohar
Justice Sujata Manohar (born August 28, 1934) is an Indian judge and a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India. Ms. Manohar was born into a family with a strong legal background - her father would later become the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat. She graduated from Elphinstone College, Bombay, and then went to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
- K. K. Mathew
K.K. Mathew was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India highly regarded for his scholarship and for his seminal contribution to the Constitutional and Administrative law in India. He later served the nation as its Tenth Law Commission Chairman and also as the Chairman of the Second Press Commission. K.K. Mathew was born into a pious Roman Catholic Syrian Christian family at Athirampuzha, a modest town in the Kottayam district of Kerala. He did his primary schooling at St.
- Naveen Jindal
Naveen Jindal (born 9 March, 1970) is a Member of Parliament, India since 2004 representing the Kurukshetra constituency in the state of Haryana. He is a member of the Congress Party. He is an industrialist with operations located in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. He runs the rail & steel and power businesses of the Jindal Group, the fourth largest private sector Indian business group by assets and sales turnover.
- N. Venkatachala
Nanje Gowda Venkatachala (born July 3, 1930) is retired judge of the Supreme court of India and former Lokayukta of state of Karnataka. He was popular for his approach of taking action in each and every case he caught, many times red-handed by personally leading the raid while he was serving as Lokayukta. He became the first of the four Lokayuktas to take the oath of office and secrecy in Kannada language with the Governor also administering the oath in Kannada.
- Zaheera Sheikh
Zaheera Sheikh (aka Zahira Sheikh, is the key witness in India's Best Bakery case. She is the daughter of the owner of the bakery involved in the Best Bakery case. On March 1, 2002, 14 persons were burnt alive in the premises of the bakery. Zaheera, who was the prime witness turned hostile in court. In January 2005, the Supreme Court of India ordered an inquiry into the repeated change of statement by Zaheera.
- Hans Raj Khanna
Hans Raj Khanna is a former judge of Supreme Court of India. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan award in 1999.
- Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti (born November 1, 1940) was the 35th Chief Justice of India, serving from June 1, 2004 to November 1, 2005. He joined the Bar in Guna district in 1960 and enrolled as an advocate in 1962. In April 1977, he was recruited directly from the Bar to the State Higher Judicial Service and was appointed as a District & Sessions Judge. After functioning as a District & Sessions Judge for a year, …
- Mehr Chand Mahajan
Mehr Chand Mahajan (born December 23, 1889 in Tika Nagrota, Kangra district) was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Prior to that he was the Prime Minister of Kashmir during the regin of Maharaja Hari Singh and played a key role in the accession of Kashmir to India. He was the Indian National Congress nominee on the Radcliff Commission that defined the boundaries of India andPakistan. Justice Mahajan made his name as an accomplished lawyer, …
- Fatima Beevi
Justice Fatima Beevi was the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary. On her retirement from the court she served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission and as Governor in Tamil Nadu. She began her career in the lower judiciary in Kerala.
- Mohammad Hidayatullah
- O. Panneerselvam
O. Paneerselvam (born 1951) is a former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. He is a soft spoken person by nature enjoys a good reputation in Theni-Madurai belt among the public. Prior to his entry to politics, he owned a tea shop which he still owns. He was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu in September 2001 after the appointment of then Chief Minister and AIADMK party chief J. Jayalalithaa was squashed by the Supreme Court of India.
- Justice V. Balakrishna Eradi
Justice V. Balakrishna Eradi was born in Kozhikode, Kerala, India on June 19, 1922. He is a retired justice of the Supreme Court of India, and retired Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. Eradi attended university at Madras Christian College and obtained his law degree from Madras Law School. Mr. Eradi also founded the first Sri Sathya Sai Baba Center, which has blossomed into a worldwide organization. After many years with the Kerala High Court, …
- Kamal Narain Singh
Kamal Narain Singh (born December 13, 1926) is an Indian jurist and a former Chief Justice of India. K. N. Singh was educated at the Ewing Christian College Allahabad, University of Allahabad, and was enrolled as an advocate on Sept. 4, 1957. He was appointed a judge in the Supreme Court of India on March 10, 1986, became Chief Justice of India on November 25, 1991, and retired December 12, 1991.
- Ruth Manorama
Ruth Manorama(1964) is widely known in India for her contributions in mainstreaming Dalit issues, especially the precarious situation of Dalit women in India. Ruth, herself from the Dalit community, calls the women "Dalits among the Dalits". This has highlighted the plight of Dalit women in the community and the media. Ruth has also contributed enormously to breaking the upper-class, upper-caste image of the women's movement in India.
- Swaraj Kaushal
Swaraj Kaushal is a former governor of Mizoram. Born in 1952 in Solan he studied law at Punjab University. He married Sushma Swaraj in 1975 and they have a daughter. He was designated as Senior Advocate by Supreme Court of India in 1986. He was associated with Socialist Party.He played prominent role in negotiations for Mizoram Peace Accord which ended 20 years of insurgency. He also represented Government of India in the Nagaland peace negotiations.
- Dilip Singh Judeo
Dilip Singh Judeo was the Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party led coalition government. He hails from the Royal family of Chhattisgarh.In November 2003 he was accused of accepting a bribe from an Australian company in exchange for mining rights in Chhattisgarh. The accusation was made by "The Sunday Express" newspaper, which had received a video of the bribe taking place.
- Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje
Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje is the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, India. He was born in Madhya Pradesh on 6 September, 1939. He started practicing law in 1964 after completing his LLB from Indore. He was appointed judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 28 July, 1990. He served as activing Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court for 11 months in 2001 and was designated as senior advocate of Supreme Court of India in September, 2002. He became Governor of Himachal Pradesh on 8 May, …
- Sam Piroj Bharucha
Sam Piroj Bharucha (May 6, 1937) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 2001 until his retirement in 2002. He began his legal career as an advocate of the Bombay High Court in 1960, and was appointed an Additional Judge in 1977. His judgeship was made permanent in 1978, and in 1991 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. In 1992, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice in 2001.
- Faizanuddin
Justice Faizanuddin is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Born in 1932 in Panna, Madhya Pradesh, he graduated from Hamidia College of Bhopal. He was appointed a judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court in 1978 and a judge of the Supreme Court of India in 1993. He retired from the Supreme Court in 1997, and was appointed as the Lokayukta (Ombudsman) for the State of Madhya Pradesh. He retired from the Lokayukta office in 2003.
- Justice C K Thakkar
Justice C K Thakkar (also Thakker) (born November 10, 1943, Mander near Porbandar, Gujarat, India) is a judge serving the Supreme Court of India since June 2004.
- Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
The Honorable Y. V. Chandrachud (Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud) served as the Chief Justice of India from February 22, 1978 to the day he retired on July 11, 1985. He was born in Poona in the state of Maharashtra on July 12, 1920. He was first appointed Judge to the Supreme Court of India on August 28, 1972. He now resides in Mumbai with his wife.
- Amarmani Tripathi
Amarmani Tripathi is a gangster-politician and erstwhile cabinet Minister in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Tripathi has been associated with several parties, most recently the Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was arrested in September 2003 in connection with the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla, with whom he allegedly had an affair, and who was brutally murdered on May 9, 2003.