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| name = Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha<br />
| image = [[File: Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha.jpg|alt|250px]]<br />
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| order = 6th<br />
| office = Chief Justice of India<br />
| term_start = {{Start date|1959|10|01|df=yes}}<br />
| term_end = {{End date|1964|01|31|df=yes}}<br />
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| appointer = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Sudhi Ranjan Das]]<br />
| successor = [[P. B. Gajendragadkar]]<br />
| office2 = 4th [[Chief Justice]] of Nagpur High court<br />
| appointer2 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
| successor2 = [[M. Hidayatullah|Mohammed Hidayatullah]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth_date|1899|02|01|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Shahabad district|Shahabad]], [[Bengal Presidency]] (Now in [[Bhojpur district, India|Bhojpur]], [[Bihar]], [[India]])<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|11|12|1899|02|01|df=yes}}<br />
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| term2 = 24 February 1951 – 2 December 1954<br />
| office3 = Judge of [[Patna High Court]]<br />
| 1blankname3 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Patna High Court|Chief Justice]]<br />
| 1namedata3 = [[Arthur Trevor Harries]]<br />
| appointer3 = [[Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow|Lord Linlithgow]]<br />
| term3 = 19 January 1943 – 23 February 1951<br />
| office1 = Judge of [[Supreme Court of India]]<br />
| term_start1 = {{Start date|1954|12|3|df=yes}}<br />
| term_end1 = {{Start date|1959|9|30|df=yes}}<br />
| nominator1 = [[Mehr Chand Mahajan]]<br />
| appointer1 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Patna College]]<br />[[Patna Law College]]<br />
| education = [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] (Hons.), [[Master of Arts|M. A.]]<br />
| children = Rameshwar Prasad Sinha<br />
| relations = {{ubl|[[B. P. Singh (judge)|B. P. Singh]] (grandson)|[[Shiva Kirti Singh|S. K. Singh]] (grandson)|[[Aparesh Kumar Singh|A. K. Singh]] (great grandson)}}<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Vivian Bose]]<br />
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'''Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha''' [Title: Sinha] of [[Shahabad district|Shahabad]] (now [[Bhojpur district, Bihar|Bhojpur]]), [[Bengal Presidency]] (1 February 1899 – 12 November 1986) was the 6th [[Chief Justice of India]] (1 October 1959 – 31 January 1964). He also served as the president of the [[Bharat Scouts and Guides]] from April 1965 to February 1967.<br />
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Sinha served as the Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of India]] from 1 October 1959 to 31 January 1964. Over the course of his Supreme Court tenure, Sinha authored 137 judgments and sat on 684 benches.<ref>{{Cite web |title=B.P. Sinha |url=https://www.scobserver.in/judges/justice-bhuvaneshwar-prasad-sinha/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=Supreme Court Observer |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Sinha was born and brought up in a prominent [[Rajput]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://files.catbox.moe/46816w.pdf#page=2|title=Reminiscences and Reflections of a Chief Justice}}</ref> (Kshatriya) family of Rajwada Gajiyapur Estate, Arrah (present Bhojpur) District. His grandson [[B. P. Singh (judge)|B. P. Singh]] is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mandhani |first=Apoorva |date=2025-04-04 |title=Legal pedigree not just entrenched in SC. 1 in 3 HC judges related to judges, ex-judges or lawyers |url=https://theprint.in/judiciary/legal-pedigree-not-just-entrenched-in-sc-1-in-3-hc-judges-related-to-judges-ex-judges-or-lawyers/2575798/ |access-date=2025-08-06 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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A deeply religious man, following his retirement, Sinha led a quiet life mostly devoted to spiritual pursuits, though he did accept a number of private arbitration cases. Becoming blind in his later years, he died in 1986.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gardbois Jr. |first=George H. |title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1950-1989 |year=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-807061-0 |pages=20–30}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
He was educated at the [[Arrah]] [[Arrah Zila School|Zilla School]], [[Patna College]] and [[Patna Law College]].<br />
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Sinha topped the list of candidates at the [[B.A. (Hons)]] in 1919 and [[Master of Arts|M.A]] in 1921 at the Patna University. He was a Vakil in the [[Patna High Court]] from 1922 to 1927. Later he became an advocate in 1927 and also got the position of Lecturer at the Govt. Law College, Patna, both of which he remained till 1935. He also was a member of the Senate of the Faculty of Law and of the Board of Examiners in Law, Patna Univ. He became the member of the Court of the [[Benaras Hindu University]] where he was a Government Pleader from 1935 to 1939. He was [[Sinha Library|Srimati Radhika Sinha]] Gold Medalist for standing first in History.<br />
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He became an Assistant Govt. Advocate in 1940 and the Judge of Patna High Court on 19 January 1943.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of B. P. Sinha as Judge of the Supreme Court of India |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/appointment-mr-justice-bp-sinha-chief-justice-nagpur-high-court-be-judge-supreme-court}}</ref> He was elevated to the position of the Chief Justice of [[Madhya Pradesh High Court#Nagpur High Court|Nagpur High Court]] in 1951 and eventually to the Judge of [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]] in December 1954 at which he remained till 30 September 1959. He finally became the [[Chief Justice of India]] in 1959 and remained so till 1964 and then he retired.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chief Justice & Judges {{!}} SUPREME COURT OF INDIA |url=https://api.sci.gov.in/chief-justice-judges |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=main.sci.gov.in |archive-date=14 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250614163408/https://www.api.sci.gov.in/chief-justice-judges |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Published works==<br />
* ''Reminiscences and Reflections of a Chief Justice'' {{ISBN|81-7018-253-0}}, 1985, 1st ed.<br />
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* [https://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/chief-justice-judges Supreme Court of India], Biographies<br />
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