Altamas Kabir
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'Hon'ble Justice Altamas Kabir |
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| 39th Chief Justice of India | |
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In office 29 September 2012 – 18 July 2013 |
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| Appointed by |
Pranab Mukherjee President of India |
| Preceded by | S. H. Kapadia |
| Succeeded by | P. Sathasivam |
| Chief Justice, Jharkhand High Court | |
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In office 1 March 2005 – 8 September 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Justice P. K. Balasubramanyan |
| Succeeded by | Justice N. Dhinakar |
| Judge, Calcutta High Court | |
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In office 6 August 1990 – 28 February 2004 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 July 1948 Kolkata, West Bengal, |
| Died | 19 February 2017 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Spouse(s) | Meena Kabir |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta, Kolkata |
Altamas Kabir (19 July 1948 – 19 February 2017) was the 39th Chief Justice of India.
Altamas Kabir was born in Calcutta in 1948 to a prominent Bengali Muslim family from the district of Faridpur (now in Bangladesh). He studied law at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. His father, Jehangir Kabir was a leading Congress politician and trade union leader from West Bengal who served as a Minister in the B.C. Roy and P.C. Sen ministries and also went on to become a minister in the first non-Congress government in West Bengal in 1967 with Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. He studied in the eminent Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling and Calcutta Boys' School of Calcutta. Impressed by one of his argumentative article on social issues and their solutions, a teacher at Calcutta Boys' School advised him to pursue a career in law. After graduating with history from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, he studied law.
His uncle Humayun Kabir was a Bengali writer and a minister in the Union Cabinets of Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shashtri.
After completing his M.A and LL.B. from the University of Calcutta, Justice Kabir was admitted to the bar in 1973 and practiced civil and criminal law in Kolkata at the district court and the Calcutta High Court, Kolkata. He was made a permanent judge of Calcutta High Court on 6 August 1990. Justice Kabir assumed the office of acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court on 11 January 2005. Justice Kabir has the credit for the computerization of the Calcutta High Court and the City Civil Court and other Courts in Kolkata. He was appointed as Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority on 14 January 2010. Under his chairmanship a national plan of action was taken up to be executed by all State Legal Services Authorities and Calendar for activities was put in place and also legal services to Transgender people was taken up as a new project of NALSA.
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