Judge of Supreme Court of India
NAME –Surya Kant
PROFESSION- Indian Jurist
BORN – 10/02/1962
PLACE OF BIRTH – Hisar, Haryana
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EDUCATION – BA, LLB, LLM
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SPECIALISATION – Constitutional and Civil law
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BACKGROUND –
Surya Kant is a Judge at the Supreme Court of India, who was was born in the Haryana village of Petwar in the Hisar district in 1962 to a poor farmer’s family.
In 1981, he graduated from Government Post Graduate College, Hisar, and in 1984, he received his LL. B from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak. In 2011, he received First Class First in his LL.M from Kurukshetra University in Kurukshetra.
CAREER TIMELINE –
1984- Started his Law practice in Hisar district court
1985- Shifted his practice to Punjab and Haryana High Court
7th July, 2000- Appointed as Advocate General of Haryana
2004- Elevation as an Hon’ble Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court
2007-2011- Member of the National Legal Services Authority
5th October 2018 – Appointed as Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court
24th May 2019- Took oath as a judge of the Supreme Court of India
LAND MARK JUDGEMENT-
Shah Faesal v. Union of India –
A Full Judge Constitution bench of NV Ramana, SK Kaul, R. Subhash Reddy, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant heard a writ petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India relating to two Constitution Orders issued by the President of India in exercise of his powers under Article 370 of the Constitution of India. The Court observed that “Judgments cannot be interpreted in a vacuum, separate from their facts and context. Observations made in a judgment cannot be selectively picked in order to give them a particular meaning.”
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