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'''Dinshah Pirosha Madon''' (7 April 1921 – 24 June 1994) was an Indian judge who served on the Supreme Court of India.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=Dinshah+Pirosha+Madon&pg=PT10|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|last=George H. Gadbois, Jr|date=2 May 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199088386|access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Madan was born on 7 April 1921. He studied at Imperial High School, [[Bombay]], Sardar Dastur Noshirwan High School of [[Poona]], and [[Elphinstone College]]. He passed [[LL.B]]. from the [[Government Law College, Mumbai]]. Madon was enrolled as an Advocate on 21 November 1944 and started practice on the Original Side of the [[Bombay High Court]] and [[Supreme Court of India]]. He worked on Civil, Constitutional, Taxation and Criminal matters. Madon also pleaded in foreign courts, such as the [[East African Court of Appeal]] at [[Nairobi]] and in the Supreme Court of [[Aden]]. From 1952 to 1955 he served as part-time Professor of [[Law]], Government Law College of Bombay. On 25 September 1967, Madon was appointed Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court and his appointment was made permanent on 6 August 1969. He was the head of the Commission of Inquiry into the [[1970 Bhiwandi riots]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sabrangindia.in/tags/justice-dp-madon-commission-inquiry-communal-disturbances-bhiwandi|title=Justice DP Madon Commission of Inquiry into the Communal Disturbances at Bhiwandi|access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/remembering-the-wrong/article4208078.ece|title=Remembering the wrong|last=Menon|first=Meena|date=17 December 2012|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> He became the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court on 11 August 1982 after Justice [[Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande]]. Justice Madon was elevated in the post of Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 15 March 1983 and retired on 7 April 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/cjshow.php?auth=cGFnZW5vPTM=|title=CHIEF JUSTICE MR. DINSHAH PIROSHA MADON|access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://164.100.107.37/judges/bio/53_dpmadon.htm|title=Former Judges|access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref><br />
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Madan died on 24 June 1994.<ref>{{cite news |title=Some thoughts, some reservations |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/some-thoughts-some-reservations--------/3497/3 |access-date=1 February 2023 |publisher=Indian Express |date=11 May 2006}}</ref><br />
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