S. H. Kapadia
| Sarosh Homi Kapadia | |
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| 38th Chief Justice of India | |
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In office 12 May 2010 – 28 September 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Pratibha Patil, President of India |
| Preceded by | K. G. Balakrishnan |
| Succeeded by | Altamas Kabir |
| 2nd Chief Justice of Uttarakhand | |
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In office 5 August 2003 – 17 December 2003 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 September 1947 Mumbai, India |
| Died | 4 January 2016 (aged 68) Mumbai, India |
| Spouse(s) | Shahnaz |
| Religion | Zoroastrianism |
Sarosh Homi Kapadia (29 September 1947 – 4 January 2016) was the thirty-eighth Chief Justice of India.
S. H. Kapadia was born in Mumbai in 1947. He graduated from Government Law College, Mumbai which is the oldest law college in Asia. Kapadia started his career as a class IV employee. He later became a law clerk in a lawyer's office in Mumbai. He joined Gagrat & Co., a law firm, as a clerk and later went on to work with Feroze Damania who was a highly respected "firebrand" labour lawyer. He later joined as an advocate in the Bombay High Court on 10 September 1974.
Kapadia was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on 8 October 1991 and on 23 March 1993 he was appointed as a permanent judge. On 5 August 2003 he became the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. On 18 December 2003 he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court. On 12 May 2010 he was sworn in as the Chief Justice of India by the then President Pratibha Patil. He retired on September 29, 2012. During his tenure as Chief Justice he was the Chairman of the General Council of the Gujarat National Law University and the Visitor of the National Law School of India University.
Kapadia was married to Shahnaz and has a son who is a Chartered Accountant and a daughter. He held interest in economics, public finance, theoretical physics, and Hindu and Buddhist philosophies. He died on 4 January 2016 in Mumbai.
On March 3, 2011, a three-member bench headed by Kapadia, quashed the appointment of Chief Vigilance Commissioner, P.J. Thomas, made by the High Power Committee comprising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj (dissenting). The judgment caused severe embarrassment for the Government and made Manmohan Singh admit the error in appointment. While the judgement was welcomed by most media pundits, some experts have expressed their concerns of miscarriage of justice. Former IAS officer, S. M. Murshed writes, 'the ratio decidendi of the Hon’ble Supreme Court is a bit difficult to comprehend, for, in the last analysis, the entire case against Thomas rested on a solitary, misconceived FIR which was filed as an afterthought and which should never have been filed. Given the facts, Manmohan Singh did no substantive wrong and he did not commit any error (in appointing Thomas).'
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