https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Amarendra_Nath_SenAmarendra Nath Sen - Revision history2026-07-30T20:38:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Amarendra_Nath_Sen&diff=41864&oldid=prev>Citation bot at 03:55, 20 March 20212021-03-20T03:55:29Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}<br />
'''Amarendra Nath Sen''' (born 1 October 1920) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] Indian jurist, who served as the chief justice of the [[Calcutta High Court]] in 1979 and as a judge in the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref name=Supreme_Court>{{Cite web |url=http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/ansen.htm |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.N. Sen |access-date=14 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215024716/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/ansen.htm |archive-date=15 February 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> His grandfather [[Baikuntha Nath Sen]] was a notable political leader and prominent lawyer of [[Bengal]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT261|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|last=George. H. Gadbois, Jr|date=2 May 2011|website=|isbn=9780199088386|access-date=March 3, 2018}}</ref><br />
<br />
==Early life and education==<br />
Born on 1 October 1920, he studied at the Saidabad Hardinge H.E. School in Murshidabad, the [[Krishnath College]] in Berhampore, the [[Scottish Church College]] and the [[Hazra Law College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name=Supreme_Court/><ref>''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 591</ref> Subsequently, he passed his Barrister-at-Law examinations from the [[Inner Temple]] in London.<ref name=Supreme_Court/><br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
He had started out as an advocate at the [[Calcutta High Court]] prior to independence in January 1947. He dealt with mainly civil cases in the Calcutta High Court.<ref name=Supreme_Court/> He was appointed an additional judge, and later a permanent judge there in 1966. He was appointed as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in December 1979. He was appointed as a judge in the [[Supreme Court of India]] in January 1981. He retired in September 1985.<ref name=Supreme_Court/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
{{authority control}}<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Amarendra Nath}}<br />
[[Category:1920 births]]<br />
[[Category:Indian barristers]]<br />
[[Category:Judges of the Calcutta High Court]]<br />
[[Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of India]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the Inner Temple]]<br />
[[Category:Scottish Church College alumni]]<br />
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Possibly living people]]<br />
[[Category:Chief Justices of the Calcutta High Court]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{India-law-bio-stub}}</div>>Citation bot