https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Madan_Mohan_PunchhiMadan Mohan Punchhi - Revision history2026-07-31T12:51:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Madan_Mohan_Punchhi&diff=250086&oldid=prev->Tamiliam at 06:10, 21 September 20212021-09-21T06:10:25Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|28th Chief Justice of India}}<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}<br />
{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| honorific-prefix = <br />
| name = Madan Mohan Punchhi<br />
| image = Justice M.M. Punchhi.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| order = 28th<br />
| office = Chief Justice of India<br />
| term_start = 18 January 1998<br />
| term_end = 9 October 1998<br />
| nominator = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--><br />
| appointer = [[Kocheril Raman Narayanan|K. R. Narayanan]]<br />
| predecessor = [[J. S. Verma]]<br />
| successor = [[Adarsh Sein Anand]]<br />
| birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name above --><br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1933|10|10}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Pakpattan]], Punjab<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2015|6|17|1933|10|10}}<br />
| death_place = <br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| other_names = <br />
| ethnicity = <br />
| footnotes = <br />
| alma_mater = [[Faculty of Law, University of Delhi]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Madan Mohan Punchhi''' (10 October 1933 – 17 June 2015) was the 28th [[Chief Justice of India]] from 18 January 1998 until his retirement on 9 October 1998.<br />
<br />
He read law at the [[Faculty of Law, University of Delhi]] after which he began his legal career in 1955, and was appointed as a Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court in October 1979.<br />
<br />
In October 1989, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in January 1998.<br />
<br />
Post retirement, he was appointed by the Government of India as the Chairman of the Centre State relations commission, subsequently known as the [[Punchhi commission]], which dealt with matters pertaining to the Centre-State relations in India.<br />
<br />
He was a resident of [[Chandigarh]].<br />
<br />
https://highcourtchd.gov.in/sub_pages/top_menu/about/events_files/REFERANCE_03082015_CJ.pdf<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090114153534/http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/MMpunchhi.htm Biography at http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/]<br />
<br />
{{start box}}<br />
{{s-legal}}<br />
{{succession box | before = [[Jagdish Sharan Verma]] | title = [[Chief Justice of India]] | years =18 January 1998– 9 October 1998| after =[[Adarsh Sein Anand]]}}<br />
{{end box}}<br />
<br />
{{Chief Justices of India}}<br />
<br />
{{authority control}}<br />
<br />
* https://nalsa.gov.in/patron-in-chief/hon-ble-mr-justice-m-m-punchhi<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Punchhi, Madan}}<br />
[[Category:Chief Justices of India]]<br />
[[Category:People from Pakpattan District]]<br />
[[Category:Scholars from Chandigarh]]<br />
[[Category:1933 births]]<br />
[[Category:2015 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{India-law-bio-stub}}</div>->Tamiliam