Prafulla Chandra Pant
Judge, Supreme Court of India
Prafulla Chandra Pant (born 30 August 1952) is a retired Indian judge and author who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2014 to 2017. He later served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India from 2019 to 2021, and briefly acted as its chairperson. Prior to his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of India, he had previously served as chief justice of the Meghalaya High Court at Shillong and as a judge of the Uttarakhand High Court at Nainital.
He was the first judge from the Uttarakhand to serve as a judge of Supreme Court of India. He was also the first judge from the Meghalaya High Court to be elevated to the Supreme Court of India, previously having served as its chief justice.
Pant has been instrumental in major cases, including decisions on execution of Yakub Memon, criminal appeals, defamation laws, religious conversions, and bank employees.
Early life and education
Prafulla Chandra Pant was born on 30 August 1952 in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh state) to Ishwari Datt Pant and Pratima Pant. His father, I. D. Pant was a teacher who served as principal of Bapu Government Inter College in Pithoragarh. He got his primary and secondary education from Mirthi in Pithoragarh and senior secondary education from Government Inter College, Pithoragarh. He graduated from Allahabad University with a Bachelor of Science, followed by a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Lucknow in which he secured first division.
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