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{{short description|Judge of Tripura High Court}}
{{Infobox Judge
|name=Arindam Lodh
| birth_name =
|office=[[Judge]] of [[Tripura High Court]]
|termstart=7 May 2018
|termend=
|appointer=[[Ram Nath Kovind]]
|nominator=[[Dipak Misra]]
|honorific_prefix=Hon'ble Mr. Justice
|birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1963|03|25|df=yes}}
}}

Justice '''Arindam Lodh''' (born 25 March 1963) is an Indian Judge at the [[Tripura High Court|High Court of Tripura]] since May 2018.<ref name="TripuraHC">{{Cite web |url=https://thc.nic.in/ALJprofile.html |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice Arindam Lodh |date=2021 |website=High Court of Tripura |access-date=2021-02-28}}</ref> He is due to retire not earlier than March 2025.

==Career==
Lodh enrolled with the [[Bar (law)|Bar]] in 1988 and practised at the [[Agartala]] Bench of the [[Gauhati High Court]]. After the establishment of the full-fledged [[Tripura High Court]] in 2013, he continued to appear there till his elevation to the [[Bench (law)|Bench]]. Lodh represented the [[Indian Oil Corporation]], [[Khadi and Village Industries Commission]], [[Northeast Frontier Railways]] and [[Prasar Bharati]] as their Standing Counsel at different times in his legal journey. He was also on the panel of lawyers for the [[Union Public Service Commission]] for Tripura region. In 2009, [[Government of India]] appointed him as Assistant [[Solicitor General]] for the Agartala Bench of the Gauhati High Court and a senior panel Counsel. He specializes in [[Civil law (common law)|Civil]], [[Constitutional law|Constitutional]], [[Criminal law|Criminal]], [[Intellectual Property]], [[Labour law|Labour]], Service and [[Tax law]].<ref name="TripuraHC"/>

A [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]] Collegium consisting of Justices [[Dipak Misra]] [[CJI]], [[Jasti Chelameswar]] and [[Ranjan Gogoi]] recommended to the [[President of India]] in November 2017 that Lodh be made a Judge of the Tripura High Court. This was done overruling the [[Indian Intelligence Bureau]]'s seemingly adverse comments about his professional competence.<ref name="SCI">{{Cite journal |date=2017-11-01 |title=Decision dated 01.11.2017 reg. elevation of an Advocate in Tripura High Court |url=https://main.sci.gov.in/pdf/collegium/2017-Nov-1%20Adv.%20and%20JO%20-%20Tripura.pdf |journal=[[Supreme Court of India]]}}</ref> Lodh assumed charge of his office on 7 May 2018. The oath was administered to him by the then [[Chief Justice]] [[Ajay Rastogi]].<ref name="B&B">{{Cite web |last=Emmanuel |first=Meera |date=2018-05-07 |title=Arindam Lodh assumes charge as Judge of Tripura High Court |url=https://www.barandbench.com/news/arindam-lodh-judge-tripura-high-court |access-date=2021-03-02 |website=Bar and Bench |language=en}}</ref>

==Notable judgements==
*In January 2020, a division bench with Chief Justice [[Akil Kureshi]] and Lodh on it declared that the heritage building [[Neermahal]] at [[Melaghar]] belongs to the [[Government of Tripura]] and not the [[Manikya dynasty|erstwhile royal Manikya family]].<ref name="Neermahal">{{Cite news |last=Panday |first=Chandan | date=2020-01-08 |title=Tripura royal family fails to prove ownership of iconic Neermahal |language=en-US |work=EastMojo |url=https://www.eastmojo.com/news/2020/01/08/tripura-royal-family-fails-to-prove-ownership-of-iconic-neermahal/ |access-date=2021-03-02}}</ref>
* A division bench consisting of Chief Justice [[Sanjay Karol]] and Lodh ruled in October 2019 that the practice of offering animal sacrifices in temples of [[Tripura]] is [[unconstitutional]]. This verdict came in a petition focussing on the tradition of sacrificing [[Bubalina|buffaloes]], [[goat]]s and [[pigeons]] in the Tripureswari temple.<ref name="temples">{{Cite web |last=Tripathi |first=Swapnil |date=2019-10-30 |title=Takeaways from the Tripura High Court judgment prohibiting animal/bird sacrifice in temples |url=https://www.barandbench.com/columns/takeaways-from-the-tripura-high-court-judgment-prohibiting-animal-bird-sacrifice-in-temples |access-date=2021-03-02 |website=Bar & Bench |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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