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'''Bijan Kumar Mukherjea''' (Bengali :বিজন কুমার মুখার্জী) (15 August 1891 – 1 February 1956<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gyanad.com/biography-bijan-kumar-mukherjea/ |title="Bijan Kumar Mukherjea", Gynad.com |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822221849/http://www.gyanad.com/biography-bijan-kumar-mukherjea/ |archive-date=22 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) was the 4th [[Chief Justice of India]]. He was in his office from 22 December 1954 to 31 January 1956.<br />
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==Avocation ==<br />
Joined Calcutta Bar in 1914<br />
Junior Govt. Pleader Calcutta High Court, 1934<br />
Senior Govt. Pleader, Calcutta Court, 1936<br />
Judge Calcutta High Court, November 1936 – 1948<br />
Member Bengal Boundary Commission, 1947<br />
Judge, Federal Court/Supreme Court 14 Oct. 1948-22 Dec.1954.<br />
Chief Justice of India 1954-31 Jan 1956<br />
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On Patanjali Sastri's retirement in January 1954, Nehru had asked B.K. Mukherjea to take over as Chief Justice. However Mukherjea had declined, saying that Mehr Chand Mahajan was senior to him. When Nehru pressed him, the judge said he would sooner resign than usurp the highest office before his turn. Only after Mahajan retired did Mukherjea become CJI.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/print/896#sthash.yhOB920D.dpuf |title=Archived copy |access-date=31 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231122844/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/print/896#sthash.yhOB920D.dpuf |archive-date=31 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Education and academics==<br />
After completion of his education in Hooghly College, Bengal, he joined the [[Surendranath Law College]] under the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.snlawcollege.ac.in/page.aspx?id=1#|title=Alumni|last=Surendranath Law College|website=snlawcollege.ac.in|access-date=25 February 2017}}</ref><br />
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He was a M.A.(History), B.L.(Gold Medalist), M.L.(Gold Medalist), Doctor of Law.<br />
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He was an Anauth Dev Research Prizeman, Tagore Law Lecturer (Calcutta University), and also a Saraswati (Sanskrit).<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Mukherjea was born to R.D. Mukherjea and Sarat Kumari Devi. Married Labanyalata Devi and had a son Amiya Kumar Mukherjea.<br />
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==Memberships and association==<br />
Fellow of the Calcutta University<br />
President of the Bengal Sanskrit Association<br />
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Associated with Scouts Movement in Bengal<br />
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Acted as District Commissioner, South Calcutta Boys Sc Association<br />
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Connected with Literary and Cultural Society Bibudha Janani Sava, Nabadwip, Gita Sava, Calcutta, St. Sahitya Parishad; Calcutta etc.<br />
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==Publication==<br />
* ''Problems & Law''<br />
* ''Hindu Law of Religious and Charitable Trusts''<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
#[http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/bkmukerjee.htm Biography at Supreme Court of India website]<br />
*[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1723670/ More extensive bio] at www.indiankanoon.org (in the appendix to his memory on the bottom of the page)<br />
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