Chand Mal Lodha (18 July 1918 – 28 January 2012) was a chief justice of the

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and the Guwahati High Court. He was born in 1918 at

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, and graduated as a gold medalist LLB from

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in 1940. He was appointed judge of the Rajasthan High Court in 1967 and later became chief justice of the Guwahati High Court in 1978.

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20th-century Indian judges Rajasthani people People from Jodhpur 1918 births 2012 deaths Chief justices of the Rajasthan High Court Chief justices of the Gauhati High Court {{India-law-bio-stub