Kuldip Singh (born 1 January 1932) is an Indian attorney and a former judge of the
Supreme Court of India
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. Following his retirement from the Supreme Court, he headed the
Delimitation Commission of 2002 that was tasked with
redrawing the boundaries of the various
assembly
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and
Lok Sabha
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constituencies based on the
2001 census.
Singh received his education from Col. Brown Cambridge School, followed by his first law degree from
Punjab University Punjab University may refer to:
India
* Punjab Agricultural University, a state agricultural university in Ludhiana, Punjab
* I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, a State university in Jalandhar, Punjab
* Panjab University, a public collegia ...
in 1955 and a second one from the
University of London
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in 1958. He served as a barrister-at-law at
Lincoln's Inn in London before returning to India in 1959.
Singh was appointed to the Supreme Court on 14 December 1988 and retired on 21 December 1996.
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1932 births
Living people
Punjabi people
Justices of the Supreme Court of India
Judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
20th-century Indian judges
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