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{{Short description|Indian judge (1951–2021)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Hon'ble Justice
| name = Mokhtarajma Yusuf Eqbal
| honorific_suffix =
| image = Justice M.Y. Eqbal.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| office = Judge of [[Supreme Court of India]]
| term_start = 24 December 2012
| term_end = 12 February 2016
| nominator = [[Altamas Kabir]]
| appointer = [[Pranab Mukherjee]]
| office1 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Madras High Court|36th Chief Justice]] of [[Madras High Court]]
| term_start1 = 11 June 2010
| term_end1 = 23 December 2012
| nominator1 = [[S. H. Kapadia]]
| appointer1 = [[Pratibha Patil]]
| predecessor1 = {{ubl|[[H. L. Gokhale]]|Elipe Dharma Rao ''(acting)''}}
| successor1 = {{ubl|[[Rajesh Kumar Agrawal|R. K. Agrawal]]|Elipe Dharma Rao ''(acting)''}}
| office2 = Judge of [[Jharkhand High Court]]
| term_start2 = 15 November 2000
| term_end2 = 10 June 2010
| appointer2 = [[K. R. Narayanan]]
| status3 = Acting Chief Justice
| appointer3 = [[Pratibha Patil]]
| term_start3 = 1 May 2010
| term_end3 = 10 June 2010
| predecessor3 = [[Gyan Sudha Misra]]
| successor3 = {{ubl|[[Bhagwati Prasad (judge)|Bhagwati Prasad]]|Sushil Harkauli ''(acting)''}}
| appointer4 = [[Pratibha Patil]]
| term_start4 = 16 May 2008
| term_end4 = 12 July 2008
| predecessor4 = [[M. Karpaga Vinayagam]]
| successor4 = [[Gyan Sudha Misra]]
| appointer5 = [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]
| term_start5 = 29 August 2006
| term_end5 = 16 September 2006
| predecessor5 = {{ubl|[[Nelavoy Dhinakar]]|[[S. J. Mukhopadhaya]] ''(acting)''}}
| successor5 = [[M. Karpaga Vinayagam]]
| office6 = Judge of [[Patna High Court]]
| term_start6 = 9 May 1996
| term_end6 = 14 November 2000
| appointer6 = [[S. D. Sharma]]
| nominator6 = [[A. M. Ahmadi]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|2|13|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|5|7|1951|2|13|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], India
| education = [[B.Sc]] and [[LL.B]]
| alma_mater = [[Ranchi University]]
}}
'''Mokhtarajma Yusuf Eqbal''' (13 February 1951 – 7 May 2021) was an Indian judge,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/sjud/myeqbal.htm |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.Y. Eqbal |publisher=Supremecourtofindia.nic.in |accessdate=2016-06-08 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017132007/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/sjud/myeqbal.htm |archivedate=17 October 2015 }}</ref> who served as a [[Judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of India]]. He also served as Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]]. He retired in February 2016.<ref>Murali, Krishnan. [https://barandbench.com/justice-my-eqbal-retires-vacancy-in-supreme-court-rises-to-6/ "Justice MY Eqbal retires; Vacancies in Supreme Court rise to 6"], ''Bar & Bench'' (February 13, 2016).</ref>

==Early life and education==
He was born on 13 February 1951, passed B.Sc. examination from [[Ranchi University]] in 1970 and obtained LL.B. degree with Distinction (Gold Medalist) in 1974.

==Career==
Enrolled as an Advocate in 1975 and initially practised exclusively on the civil side, in civil courts at Ranchi, he shifted his practice to the Ranchi Bench of the [[Patna High Court]] in 1986 and became Government Pleader in the Ranchi Bench of Patna High Court in 1990.

In 1993 he became Government Advocate in the High Court. In these periods he practised in civil, criminal, constitutional and tax matters. He also worked as retained Counsel and Legal Adviser of almost all the Banks, Insurance Company, Electricity Board, Housing Board, university and other Government and semi Government Undertakings. Appointed permanent Judge of the [[Patna High Court]] on 9 May 1996, by Notification dated 14 November 2000 he became the Judge of the [[Jharkhand High Court]] where he also served as acting chief justice thrice in 2006,<ref name="Chief justice sworn in">{{Cite news |date=17 September 2006 |title=Chief justice sworn in |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/chief-justice-sworn-in/cid/770094 |access-date=7 June 2019 |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=India}}</ref> 2008<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reading material of JHALSA |url=https://jhalsa.org/pdfs/Reading_Materials/RM_11-15_06_08_Mediation/Part_1.pdf |access-date=23 January 2026 |website=Jharkhand legal services authority}}</ref> and 2010 respectively.

He was the chief justice of the [[Madras High Court]] from 11 June 2010 to 21 December 2012 and elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 24 December 2012.<ref>{{cite web|author=A Subramani |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-22/chennai/34652504_1_senior-judges-high-court-adequate-representation |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216083223/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-22/chennai/34652504_1_senior-judges-high-court-adequate-representation |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-16 |title=With more judges retiring, Madras high court backlog likely to go up |date=2012-10-22 |work=[[The Times of India]] |accessdate=2013-05-16}}</ref>

His brother is also a judge in the Ranchi Lower Court.

Eqbal died from [[COVID-19]] in May 2021, at the Medanta Hospital in the city of [[Gurgaon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/former-supreme-court-judge-justice-my-eqbal-passes-away|title=Former Supreme Court judge, Justice MY Eqbal passes away|date=7 May 2021 }}</ref>

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