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Keshav Prasad Upadhyaya

former Chief Justice of Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ67976916 ↗
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Keshav Prasad Upadhyaya was a Nepalese judge who served as 13th Chief Justice of Nepal, in office from 16 December 1999 to 5 December 2002. He was appointed by the then-king of Nepal, Birendra.

Upadhyaya was preceded by Mohan Prasad Sharma and succeeded by Kedar Nath Upadhyay.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944-01-01. For this dossier, Keshav, Prasad and Upadhyaya is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Keshav Prasad Upadhyaya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.