Chittatosh Mookerjee (Born 1 January 1929) was the Chief Justice of theCalcutta andBombay High Court, India. He is the grandson of Bengali scholar and educatorAshutosh Mukherjee and the nephew ofShyama Prasad Mookerjee.[1][2]
Mookerjee was born on 1 January 1929 inKolkata,British India. His father Rama Prasad Mukherjee was a judge of theCalcutta High Court. He passed Matriculation Examination in the First Division from Mitra Institution, Bhowanipore, got First Class in the Preliminary, Intermediate and Final Law Examinations of theCalcutta University and passed M.A. in Economics in 1951.[3] Mookerjee entered the legal profession in November 1953.[4]
He was appointed an additional judge of the Calcutta High Court in 1969, and in 1970, he became a permanent judge of the High Court. In 1986 he was elevated as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court[5] and was transferred toBombay asChief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Mookerjee retired from judgeship in 1991. He was also the actingGovernor of Maharashtra.[4] In 1990, he was the head of the tribunal for theKaveri River water dispute.[6] After retirement, he became the first chairperson of theWest Bengal Human Rights Commission and served there from 1995 to 1998.[7]
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