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Published on: March 24, 2022 at 08:45 IST
Former Chief Justice of India Ramesh Chandra Lahoti passed away at a Delhi hospital on Wednesday.
Justice Lahoti was appointed as the 35th Chief Justice of India on June 1, 2004, and retired on November 1, 2005. Justice Lahoti was born on November 1, 1940 and enrolled as a lawyer in 1962.
Justice Lahoti was recruited directly to the bench in April 1977, from the Bar to the State Higher Judicial Service and was appointed as a district and sessions judge. After serving in the post for a year, Justice Lohati resigned in May 1978 and returned to the Bar to practice mainly in the High Court.
Justice Lahoti was appointed an additional judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on May 3, 1988, and made a permanent judge on August 4 the next year.