| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon'ble Justice |
| Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale | |
| Office: | Judicial Member of Lokpal |
| Term Start: | 23 March 2019 |
| Term End: | 12 January 2020 |
| Appointer: | Ram Nath Kovind |
| Predecessor: | Position Established |
| Office1: | 46th Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court |
| Term Start1: | 30 July 2016 |
| Term End1: | 23 October 2018 |
| Nominator1: | T. S. Thakur |
| Appointer1: | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Predecessor1: | D. Y. Chandrachud |
| Successor1: | Govind Mathur |
| Office2: | Judge of Hyderabad High Court |
| Term Start2: | 8 December 2014 |
| Term End2: | 29 July 2016 |
| Nominator2: | H. L. Dattu |
| Appointer2: | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Office3: | Judge of Karnataka High Court |
| Term Start3: | 6 January 2012 |
| Term End3: | 7 December 2014 |
| Nominator3: | S. H. Kapadia |
| Appointer3: | Pratibha Patil |
| Office4: | Judge of Bombay High Court |
| Term Start4: | 22 January 2001 |
| Term End4: | 5 January 2012 |
| Nominator4: | Adarsh Sein Anand |
| Appointer4: | K. R. Narayanan |
| Birth Date: | 1956 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Bombay, Bombay State, India |
| Father: | Babasaheb Bhosale |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | Government Law College, Mumbai[1] |
Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale (born 24 October 1956) is the ex-Judicial Member of Lokpal Committee. He is the former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court and as a Judge of Hyderabad High Court, Karnataka High Court and Bombay High Court.[2]
Bhosale hails from Satara district of Maharashtra.[3] He comes from a prominent family. His father Babasaheb Bhosale was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1982 to 83 while his uncle Shivajirao was the Vice-Chancellor of Marathwada University situated at Aurangabad. Justice Bhosale studied law at Government Law College, Mumbai.[4]
He joined the Bar in June 1980 when he began practice at the High Court of Bombay. Bhosale was an Assistant Government Pleader and Assistant Public Prosecutor at the court from 1986 to 1991. He was appointed an Additional Judge at the Bombay High Court in January 2001 and promoted to be a Permanent Judge two years later. Beginning 2012, Bhosale was made a sitting Judge at the High Court of Karnataka.[3] [5] On 30 July 2016, he was promoted to Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.
On 23 October 2018, he retired from High Court.