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| office = Hon'ble Judge of [[Allahabad High Court]]<br />
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| term_end = 1931<br />
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| term_start3= 1936<br />
| term_end3 = 1936<br />
| predecessor3 = [[Elliot James Dowell Colvin]]<br />
| successor3 = [[N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar]]<br />
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'''Barjor Jamshedji Dalal''' was an Indian jurist who served as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and held the office of [[List of chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir#Prime ministers of country of Jammu and Kashmir (1917–1947)|Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]] in 1936.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
Barjor J. Dalal had a distinguished legal career, including serving as the Judge of [[Allahabad High Court]] from 1925 to 1931<ref>{{cite web | title=Former Judges of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad and its Bench at Lucknow(1900-1990) | website=Welcome to the Official Website of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad and its Bench at Lucknow, U.P., India | date=18 May 1909 | url=https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/Judges/ex-judge1900-1990.htm | access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref> and Chief Justice of the [[High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh|Jammu and Kashmir High Court]].<ref>{{cite web | title=S.F. Rich vs Emperor Through Rashid Ahmad on 2 April, 1930 | website=[[Indian Kanoon]] | url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/759249/ | access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref> In addition to his judicial roles, he also briefly served as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in 1936.<ref>{{cite news | title=Prime Ministers of J&K | website=[[Daily Excelsior]] | date=1 November 2014 | url=https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/prime-ministers-jk/ | access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref><br />
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== Commission of Inquiry ==<br />
Following the [[1931 Kashmir agitation#Events|13 July Incident]], on 14th July 1931, the Maharaja's government appointed a Commission of Inquiry. This commission was chaired by Sir Barjor Dalal, with two judges of the High Court, Mr. B.R. Sawhney and Mr. Abdul Qaiyum, as official members. Two non-official members, one Muslim and the other Hindu, were also part of the commission.<ref>{{cite web | last=Ahmed | first=Khalid Bashir | title=Myth of an Enquiry Commission | website=[[Greater Kashmir]] | date=12 July 2020 | url=https://www.greaterkashmir.com/todays-paper/myth-of-an-enquiry-commission | access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref><br />
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