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{{short description|28th Chief Justice of India}}
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| name                = Madan Mohan Punchhi
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| order               = 28th
| office              = Chief Justice of India
| term_start          = 18 January 1998
| term_end            = 9 October 1998
| nominator           = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number-->
| appointer           = [[Kocheril Raman Narayanan|K. R. Narayanan]]
| predecessor         = [[J. S. Verma]]
| successor           = [[Adarsh Sein Anand]]
| birth_name          = <!-- only use if different from name above -->
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=yes|1933|10|10}}
| birth_place         = [[Pakpattan]], Punjab
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|2015|6|17|1933|10|10}}
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| alma_mater          = [[Faculty of Law, University of Delhi]]
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'''Madan Mohan Punchhi''' (10 October 1933 – 17 June 2015) was the 28th [[Chief Justice of India]] from 18 January 1998 until his retirement on 9 October 1998.

He read law at the [[Faculty of Law, University of Delhi]] after which he began his legal career in 1955, and was appointed as a Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court in October 1979.

In October 1989, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in January 1998.

Post retirement, he was appointed by the Government of India as the Chairman of the Centre State relations commission, subsequently known as the [[Punchhi commission]], which dealt with matters pertaining to the Centre-State relations in India.

He was a resident of [[Chandigarh]].

https://highcourtchd.gov.in/sub_pages/top_menu/about/events_files/REFERANCE_03082015_CJ.pdf

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090114153534/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/MMpunchhi.htm Biography at http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/]

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* https://nalsa.gov.in/patron-in-chief/hon-ble-mr-justice-m-m-punchhi

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[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]


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