Justice Mohammad Rafiq (born 25 May 1960) is an Indian Judge. He is a former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court,Orissa High Court,

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,and and

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and also a former

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. Twice, he served as the Acting Chief Justice of

. He also served as the Chancellor (ex-officio) of Orissa National Law University,Cuttuck, National Law University, Bhopal, Dharamshastra National Law University, Jabalpur and

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, Shimla.

Early life

Rafiq was born in

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in Indian state of

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. He earned bachelor's degree from G.H.S. Govt. PG College, Sujangarh affiliated to Rajasthan University in 1980. Then, he continued to study Bachelor of Legislative Law (LLB) and received the LLB degree in 1984. He started his career as an advocate shortly after getting LLB degree. He continued to study further and got the master's degree in 1986.

Career

Rafiq started his career as advocate in 1984 in Rajasthan High Court Jaipur and was later appointed as assistant government advocate on 15 July 1986 and was promoted as Deputy Government Advocate on 22 December 1987. He was appointed as Central Government Standing Counsel in1992.He was appointed Additional Advocate General of the state of Rajasthan on7th January 1999.On15th May 2006, Rafiq was appointed a

, he has also served as Acting Chief Justice of

twice. Rafiq was appointed a Chief Justice of

on 13 November 2019. He was transferred from

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as the 31st Chief Justice of

and took oath on 27 April 2020. He was then transferred as Chief Justice of

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on 31 December 2020 and took oath on 3 January 2021. He was transferred as Chief Justice of

on 9 October 2021 and took oath on 14 October 2021. He retired on 24 May 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rafiq, Mohammad 1960 births Living people Chief justices of the Orissa High Court Judges of the Meghalaya High Court Judges of the Rajasthan High Court Chief justices of the Rajasthan High Court Rajasthani people 21st-century Indian lawyers