Bahauddin Farooqi
former Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir
Bahauddin Farooqi (1927 – 5 July 2014) was a Kashmiri lawyer, jurist and political figure who served as the 12th Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.
Education and career
Farooqi pursued Law at Aligarh Muslim University after which he started practice at District Court Anantnag. He then joined judicial service and started his career as munsif in the subordinate judiciary and later served as law secretary to the government during the regime of Ghulam Muhammad Sadiq. He then became Srinagar district and sessions judge and was elevated as high court judge in 1971. During his tenure, he authored a number of landmark judgments and his judgment regarding anti-defection was the first to be passed by any high court of the country. The judgment became the basis for anti-defection law ratified by the Indian Parliament.
He served as Chief Justice from 7 March 1983, to 23 August 1983. Farooqi resigned in 1983 as Jammu and Kashmir HC CJ, when he was transferred to Sikkim High Court, on the ground that the Government of India had no jurisdiction to transfer a Jammu and Kashmir HC judge to any part of the country as the state had a special status under Article 370 of the Indian constitution.
He also served as Chairman of the People Basic Rights Commission, an independent organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations committed by Indian Armed Forces in Kashmir, and seeking prosecution. Farooqi wrote to expose the Indian Government's tyrannical abuses of power against Kashmirs:
"That, nearly forty-two years back, India annexed the Jammu and Kashmir State by manipulation, fraud and force against the declared wishes of the people of the State.
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