Satya Brata Sinha (8 August 1944 – 19 March 2019), known as S. B. Sinha was a jurist and former judge of the

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Introduction

S. B. Sinha was born in

Kayastha Kayastha (or Kayasth) denotes a cluster of disparate Indian communities broadly categorised by the regions of the Indian subcontinent in which they were traditionally locatedthe Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas of North India, the Chandraseniya Ka ...

on 8 August 1944 at

Dhanbad Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur and a major financial hub of Jharkhand. In terms of economy, Dhanbad has the largest economy in the state of Jharkhand and it is often referred to as th ...

in the state of

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, India. He passed his matriculation examination from H.E. School, Dhanbad and received his

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degree from Chota Nagpur Law College in 1967. Sinha joined the Dhanbad District Court in 1968 after which he shifted his practice to

Ranchi Ranchi (; ) is the capital city and also the largest district by population of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern ...

upon constitution of the Permanent Bench of the

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in 1976. He was designated as senior advocate by the Patna High Court. Subsequently, he was appointed the first Government Advocate of the Ranchi Bench of the

and was elevated to the Patna High Court on 9 March 1987. He was transferred to the

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on 11 May 1994. He served as the Chief Justice of the High Courts of Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi. He was elevated as a judge of the

on 3 October 2002 and retired on 8 August 2009.

TDSAT Chairman

On 3 November 2009, after retirement from the Supreme Court, Sinha was appointed the chairman of the

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(TDSAT) succeeding Arun Kumar who retired in September, 2009.

Death

Sinha died on 19 March 2019 at the age of 74 after brief illness in

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References

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