List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India explained

The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its inception on 26 January 1950. A total of 239 judges have served in the court (excluding sitting judges). The list has been arranged on the basis of date of retirement with Chief Justices mentioned first.

Former chief justices

Sr.No.	Portrait	Name of the Chief Justice	Date of appointment	Date of appointment as CJI	Date of retirement	Tenure Length	Tenure Length as CJI
1		H. J. Kania
2		M. Patanjali Sastri
3		Mehr Chand Mahajan
4		Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
5		Sudhi Ranjan Das
6		Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
7		P. B. Gajendragadkar
8		Amal Kumar Sarkar
9		Koka Subba Rao			^‡
10		Kailas Nath Wanchoo
11		Mohammad Hidayatullah^[1]
12		Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah
13		S.M. Sikri
14		A. N. Ray
15		Mirza Hameedullah Beg
16		Y. V. Chandrachud
17		P. N. Bhagwati
18		Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
19		Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah
20		Sabyasachi Mukherjee
21		Ranganath Misra
22		Kamal Narain Singh
23		Madhukar Hiralal Kania
24		Lalit Mohan Sharma
25		M. N. Venkatachaliah
26		Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
27		J. S. Verma
28		Madan Mohan Punchhi
29		Adarsh Sein Anand
30		Sam Piroj Bharucha
31		Bhupinder Nath Kirpal
32		Gopal Ballav Pattanaik
33		V. N. Khare
34		S. Rajendra Babu
35		Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
36		Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal
37		K. G. Balakrishnan
38		S. H. Kapadia
39		Altamas Kabir
40		P. Sathasivam
41		Rajendra Mal Lodha
42		H. L. Dattu
43		T. S. Thakur
44		Jagdish Singh Khehar
45		Dipak Misra
46		Ranjan Gogoi
47		Sharad Arvind Bobde
48		N. V. Ramana
49		Uday Umesh Lalit

Former judges

Sr.No.	Name	Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Tenure length
1	Fazl Ali^[2]	26 January 1950	18 September 1951
2	N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar^[3]	23 September 1950	24 January 1953
3	Ghulam Hasan	8 September 1952	5 November 1954
4	Vivian Bose^[4]	5 March 1951	8 June 1956
5	P. Govinda Menon	1 September 1956	16 October 1957
6	B. Jagannadha Das	9 March 1953	26 July 1958
7	T. L. Venkatarama Aiyyar	4 January 1954	24 November 1958
8	Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati	8 September 1952	6 June 1959
9	J. L. Kapur	14 January 1957	12 December 1962
10	S. K. Das	30 April 1956	2 September 1963
11	Syed Jaffer Imam	10 January 1955	31 January 1964
12	N. Rajagopala Ayyangar	27 July 1960	14 December 1964
13	K. C. Das Gupta	24 August 1959	2 January 1965
14	Raghubar Dayal	27 July 1960	25 October 1965
15	P. Satyanarayana Raju	20 October 1965	20 April 1966
16	J. R. Mudholkar	3 October 1960	3 July 1966
17	R. S. Bachawat	7 September 1964	31 July 1969
18	V. Ramaswami	4 January 1965	29 October 1969
19	Vashishtha Bhargava	8 August 1966	4 February 1971
20	G. K. Mitter	29 August 1966	23 September 1971
21	Subimal Chandra Roy	19 June 1971	12 November 1971
22	C. A. Vaidyialingam	10 October 1966	29 June 1972
23	I. D. Dua	1 August 1969	3 October 1972
24	J. M. Shelat	24 February 1966	30 April 1973
25	K. S. Hegde	17 July 1967	30 April 1973
26	A. N. Grover	11 February 1968	31 May 1973
27	A. K. Mukherjea	14 August 1972	23 October 1973
28	D. G. Palekar	19 July 1971	3 September 1974
29	S. N. Dwivedi	14 August 1972	8 December 1974
30	P. Jaganmohan Reddy	1 August 1969	22 January 1975
31	A. Alagiriswami	17 October 1972	16 October 1975
32	K. K. Mathew	4 October 1971	2 January 1976
33	Hans Raj Khanna	22 September 1971	11 March 1977
34	Parbati Kumar Goswami	10 September 1973	31 December 1977
35	Jaswant Singh	23 January 1976	24 January 1979
36	N. L. Untwalia	3 October 1974	31 July 1980
37	P. S. Kailasam	3 January 1977	11 September 1980
38	P. N. Shingal	6 November 1975	14 October 1980
39	V. R. Krishna Iyer	17 July 1973	14 November 1980
40	R. S. Sarkaria	17 September 1973	15 January 1981
41	Alak Chandra Gupta	2 September 1974	31 December 1981
42	A. D. Koshal	17 July 1978	6 March 1982
43	Baharul Islam^[5]	4 December 1980	12 January 1983
44	D. A. Desai	30 September 1977	8 May 1985
45	A. Varadarajan	10 December 1980	16 August 1985
46	Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali^[6]	2 April 1975	20 August 1985
47	Amarendra Nath Sen	28 January 1981	30 September 1985
48	V. D. Tulzapurkar	30 September 1977	8 March 1986
49	Dinshah Pirosha Madon	15 March 1983	6 April 1986
50	R. B. Misra	30 January 1981	14 June 1986
51	V. Balakrishna Eradi	30 January 1981	18 June 1987
52	Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid	25 June 1984	30 June 1987
53	O. Chinnappa Reddy	17 July 1978	24 September 1987
54	Ananda Prakash Sen	17 July 1978	19 September 1988
55	Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar	15 March 1983	3 November 1988
56	S. Natarajan
57	M. M. Dutt^[7]	10 March 1986	29 October 1989
58	Goverdhan Lal Oza	29 October 1985	11 December 1989
59	Narayan Dutta Ojha
60	K. N. Saikia
61	B. C. Ray	29 October 1985	31 October 1991
62	K. Jagannatha Shetty
63	Fathima Beevi^[8]	6 October 1989	29 April 1992
64	R. C. Patnaik
65	S. Ranganathan
66	Narendra Mohan Kasliwal^[9]	6 October 1989	3 April 1993
67	T. K. Thommen
68	V. Ramaswami
69	S. Ratnavel Pandian
70	K. Jayachandra Reddy
71	Yogeshwar Dayal
72	Shanmughasundaram Mohan
73	R. M. Sahai
74	P. B. Sawant^[10]	6 October 1989	29 June 1995
75	N. Venkatachala
76	Kuldip Singh^[11]	14 December 1988	21 December 1996
77	N. P. Singh
78	B. L. Hansaria
79	Faizanuddin
80	B. P. Jeevan Reddy
81	K. S. Paripoornan
82	K. Ramaswamy
83	S. C. Sen
84	Ganendra Narayan Ray^[12]	7 October 1991	30 April 1998
85	S. C. Agrawal
86	M. K. Mukherjee
87	Sujata Manohar^[13]	8 November 1994	27 August 1999
88	K. Venkataswami
89	Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar^[14]	29 March 1996	15 January 2000
90	G. T. Nanavati^[15]	6 March 1995	16 February 2000
91	Madhavachari Srinivasan
92	D. P. Wadhwa
93	Saiyed Saghir Ahmad
94	S. B. Majmudar
95	M. Jagannadha Rao
96	Ajay Prakash Misra
97	K. T. Thomas
98	Sailendu Nath Phukan
99	Ram Prakash Sethi^[16]	8 January 1999	6 July 2002
100	D. P. Mohapatra
101	Umesh Chandra Banerjee^[17]	9 December 1998	17 November 2002
102	Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri^[18]	4 December 1997	4 April 2003
103	M. B. Shah
104	Brijesh Kumar
105	Doraiswamy Raju
106	N. Santosh Hegde^[19]	8 January 1999	16 June 2005
107	Shivaraj Patil
108	P. Venkatarama Reddi
109	D. M. Dharmadhikari
110	Sam Nariman Variava
111	Arun Kumar
112	B. N. Srikrishna
113	Ruma Pal
114	A. R. Lakshmanan
115	B. P. Singh
116	P. K. Balasubramanyan
117	G. P. Mathur
118	H. K. Sema
119	P. P. Naolekar
120	Ashok Kumar Mathur
121	Ashok Bhan
122	C. K. Thakker
123	Lokeshwar Singh Panta
124	Arijit Pasayat
125	S. B. Sinha
126	B. N. Agrawal
127	Tarun Chatterjee
128	B. Sudarshan Reddy
129	V. S. Sirpurkar
130	H. S. Bedi
131	Mukundakam Sharma
132	Markandey Katju
133	J. M. Panchal
134	R. V. Raveendran
135	Cyriac Joseph^[20]	7 July 2008	27 January 2012
136	Asok Kumar Ganguly
137	Dalveer Bhandari^[21]	28 October 2005	27 April 2012
138	Deepak Verma
139	Swatanter Kumar
140	D. K. Jain
141	Aftab Alam
142	G. S. Singhvi
143	Hemant Gokhale
144	Gyan Sudha Misra^[22]	30 April 2010	27 April 2014
145	K. S. Panicker Radhakrishnan
146	Ananga Kumar Patnaik
147	S. S. Nijjar
148	B. S. Chauhan^[23]	11 May 2009	1 July 2014
149	Chandramauli Kumar Prasad^[24]	8 February 2010	14 July 2014
150	Ranjana Desai^[25]	13 September 2011	29 October 2014
151	S. J. Mukhopadhaya^[26]	13 September 2011	14 March 2015
152	Vikramajit Sen	24 December 2012	30 December 2015
153	M. Y. Eqbal	24 December 2012	31 December 2015
154	Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla
155	Chokkalingam Nagappan
156	Venkate Gopala Gowda
157	Shiva Kirti Singh
158	Anil R. Dave
159	Pinaki Chandra Ghose
160	Prafulla Chandra Pant	13 August 2014	29 August 2017
161	Amitava Roy	27 February 2015	1 March 2018
162	Rajesh Kumar Agrawal
163	Jasti Chelameswar
164	Adarsh Kumar Goel
165	Kurian Joseph^[27]
166	Madan Lokur
167	Arjan Kumar Sikri^[28]
168	Abhay Manohar Sapre
169	Deepak Gupta
170	R. Banumathi
171	Arun Kumar Mishra
172	Indu Malhotra^[29]
173	Mohan Shantanagoudar^[30]
174	Ashok Bhushan
175	Rohinton Fali Nariman
176	Navin Sinha
177	Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy
178	Vineet Saran
179	L. Nageswara Rao
180	A. M. Khanwilkar
181	Indira Banerjee
182	Hemant Gupta
183	Syed Abdul Nazeer
184	Dinesh Maheshwari
185	Mukesh Shah
186	K. M. Joseph
187	Ajay Rastogi
188	V. Ramasubramanian
189	Krishna Murari
190	Shripathi Ravindra Bhat
191	Sanjay Kishan Kaul
192	Aniruddha Bose
193	Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna	24 May 2019	19 May 2024

See also

• List of chief justices of India
• List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India
• List of female judges of the Supreme Court of India

External links

• • Chief justice & Judges
• Former Justices

Notes and References

1. Also served as Acting President of India and Vice President of India.
2. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Sir Syed Fazl Ali . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20130508152532/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/1_ssfali.htm. 8 May 2013. live.
3. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20130508105824/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/2_ncaiyar.htm. 8 May 2013. live.
4. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Vivian Bose . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110322170251/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/3_vbose.htm. 22 March 2011. live.
5. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Baharul Islam. Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20141017050944/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/48_bislam.htm. 17 October 2014. dead. dmy-all.
6. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. Murtaza Fazal Ali. Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20120308055322/http://sci.nic.in/judges/bio/39_smfali.htm. 8 March 2012. dead. 22 September 2015.
7. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.M. Dutt . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110914011555/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/58_mmdutt.htm. 14 September 2011. live.
8. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Ms. Justice M. Fathima Beevi . Supreme Court of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20120307004235/http://sci.nic.in/judges/bio/71_mfbeevi.htm. 7 March 2012. live.
9. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Narendra Monhan Kasliwal . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110913153439/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/69_nmkasliwal.htm. 13 September 2011 . live.
10. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice P.B. Sawant . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110913153439/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/68_pbsawant.htm. 13 September 2011 . live.
11. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kuldip Singh. Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20120414235106/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/66_ksingh.htm. 14 April 2012. live.
12. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice G.N. Ray. Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110913074623/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/78_gnray.htm. 13 September 2011. live.
13. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Sujata V. Manohar . Supreme Court of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20130728172725/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/88_svmanohar.htm . 28 July 2013 . dead . 22 September 2015 .
14. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.P. Kurdukar. Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110512061840/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/92_spkurdukar.htm. 12 May 2011. dead. dmy-all.
15. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice G.T. Nanavati . Supreme Court of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20110512061826/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/89_gtnanavati.htm . 12 May 2011 . live.
16. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble R.P. Sethi . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110214162715/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/103_rpsethi.htm. 14 February 2011. live.
17. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble U.C. Banerjee . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110214162705/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/101_ucbanerjee.htm. 14 February 2011. live.
18. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.S.M. Quadri . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110512062035/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/98_ssmquadri.htm. 12 May 2011. live.
19. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble N. Santosh Hegde. Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20110214162709/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/102_nshegde.htm. 14 February 2011. dead. 7 August 2014.
20. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Cyriac Joseph . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20120215200436/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/135_cjoseph.htm. 15 February 2012. live.
21. Web site: Former Justices. Supreme Court of India. www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in. en. 2018-05-10.
22. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20140722193520/http://sci.nic.in/judges/bio/144_gyansudhamisra.htm. 22 July 2014. live.
23. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Balbir Singh Chauhan . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20140807160148/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/148_bschauhan.htm. 7 August 2014. live.
24. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Chandramauli Kumar Prasad . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20140807155705/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/149_ckprasad.htm. 7 August 2014. live.
25. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai . Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20150326155127/http://sci.nic.in/judges/bio/150_rpdesai.htm. 26 March 2015. live.
26. Web site: Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya . Supreme Court of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923235054/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/151_sjmukhopadhaya.htm . 23 September 2015 . live.
27. News: "Life Is Worthwhile With A Smile": Justice Kurian Joseph Signs Off. NDTV.com. 2018-11-29.
28. Web site: Justice AK Sikri Breaks Down as Lawyers Bid Emotional Farewell to SC Judge. News18. 2019-03-06.
29. Web site: March 13, 2021. Dhananjay. Mahapatra. Choking with emotion, Justice Malhotra bids adieu to Supreme Court with tears. 2021-03-13. The Times of India. en.
30. News: Krishnadas Rajagopal . 2021-04-25 . Supreme Court judge Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar passes away . en-IN. The Hindu . 2021-04-25 . 0971-751X.