Manoj Kumar Mukherjee (1 December 1933 – 17 April 2021) was an Indian jurist. He served as the

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and

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and former judge of the

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. He was the head of

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Career

Mukherjee was born in 1933 in

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. He did his schooling in East Indian Railway School in Asansol. He passed B.Sc. and LL.B thereafter started his lawyer career in

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Court, in the state of

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in 1956. He worked in the

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as a criminal law expert since December 1962 and in 1977 he was appointed a Judge of this Court. He was transferred to the Allahabad High Court on 12 November 1991 as the Chief Justice. In January 1993 Mukherjee became the Chief Justice

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. He was also appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1993. In 1999, after retirement, Mukherjee was appointed the chairperson of

to inquire into the

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. His name was recommended by the then

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