Manoj Kumar Mukherjee (1 December 1933 – 17 April 2021) was an Indian jurist. He served as the Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court and

Allahabad High Court Allahabad High Court, also known as High Court of Judicature at Allahabad is the high court based in Prayagraj that has jurisdiction over the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 17 March 1866, making it one of the oldest high ...

and former judge of the

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. He was the head of

Mukherjee Commission Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose died on 18 August 1945 from third-degree burns sustained after the bomber in which he was being transported as a guest of Lieutenant General Tsunamasa Shidei of the Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army c ...

Career

Mukherjee was born in 1933 in British India. He did his schooling in East Indian Railway School in Asansol. He passed B.Sc. and LL.B thereafter started his lawyer career in Asansol Court, in the state of West Bengal 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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References

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