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{{Infobox Judge
| name = Arijit Pasayat
| honorific-prefix = '''Hon'ble Justice'''
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| office = [[Judge]] [[Supreme court of India]]
| termstart = 20 October 2001
| termend = 10 May 2009
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| office2 = [[Chief Justice]] of [[Delhi High Court]]
| termstart2 = 10 May 2000
| termend2 = 19 October 2001
| office3 = [[Chief Justice]] of [[High Court of Kerala|Kerala High Court]]
| term_start3 = 20 September 1999
| term_end3 = 9 May 2000
| office4 = [[Judge]] of [[Orissa High Court]]
| term_start4 = 20 March 1989
| term_end4 = 19 September 1999
| termend4 = 19 September 1999 <br> {{small|acting: 2 April 1999 – 18 September 1999}}
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Justice '''Arijit Pasayat''' is a former [[judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of India]]. He hails from [[Orissa, India|Orissa]], where he practised in matters relating to [[taxation]] and [[Constitution|constitutional affairs]] before the [[Orissa High Court]].

==Career==
Justice Pasayat started his career in [[litigation]] on 10 October 1968, when he was enrolled to the [[Bar (law)|bar]] as an [[advocate]]. In this role, he practiced before the [[Orissa High Court]] in taxation and constitutional matters while also taking up other commercial cases. He simultaneously pursued the examination of [[chartered accountant]] and completed the mandatory article-ship, and also passed the Intermediate Chartered Accountancy Examination.

He was appointed as an additional judge in the [[Orissa High Court]] on 20 March 1989. He was then appointed as the chief justice of the [[Kerala High Court]] on 20 September 1999. He was subsequently transferred and appointed as the chief justice of [[Delhi High Court]] on 10 May 2000.<ref name="Profile at Official Website of Supreme Court of India">{{cite web|title=Profile at Official Website of Supreme Court of India|url=http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/113_apasayat.htm|publisher=Supreme Court of India|accessdate=28 August 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217025858/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/113_apasayat.htm|archivedate=17 February 2012}}</ref>

Justice Pasayat was elevated as a judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]] on 20 October 2001, and retired on 10 May 2009.<ref name="Profile at Official Website of Supreme Court of India"/>

== Prominent cases ==
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Among the most notable of his decisions, he was the part of a [[constitutional bench]] of the Supreme Court which decided upon the constitutional validity of the reservation to 'other backwards classes' (OBCs) in national level institutions such as the [[Indian Institutes of Technology|IITs]] and the [[Indian Institutes of Management|IIMs]].

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* Justice Pasayat in news [http://www.outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Arijit%2BPasayat 1]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, [http://www.nerve.in/tags:arijit+pasayat|2], [http://www.nerve.in/timeline:arijit+pasayat|3]

== See also ==
* [[Supreme Court of India]]
* [[Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India (Supreme Court Case)]]

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