List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India


The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its inception on 26 January 1950. A total of 249 judges have served in the court. The list has been arranged on the basis of date of retirement with Chief Justices mentioned first.

Former judges including CJIs

;Key
  • Resigned
  • Died in office
NameImageDate of appointmentDate of retirementTenure lengthDate of initial appointment as HC JudgeTenure as HC Judge Parent High CourtRemarks
Harilal Jekisundas Kania ''26 1 19506 11 1951Bombay
Saiyid Fazl Ali26 1 195018 9 1951Patna5th CJ of Patna HC
Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri ''26 1 19503 1 1954Madras
Mehr Chand Mahajan '26 1 195022 12 1954Lahore
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea ''26 1 195031 1 1956Calcutta
Sudhi Ranjan Das ''26 1 195030 9 1959Calcutta2nd CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Nagapudi Chandrasekhara Aiyar23 9 195024 1 1953Madras
Vivian Bose5 3 19518 6 1956NagpurCJ of erstwhile Nagpur HC
Ghulam Hasan8 9 19525 11 1954Allahabad
Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati8 9 19526 6 1959Bombay
Bachu Jagannadha Das9 3 195326 7 1958Orissa2nd CJ of Orissa HC
Tirunelveli Lakshmanasuri Venkatarama Iyer4 1 195424 11 19587 1 1951Madras
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha ''3 12 195431 1 1964PatnaCJ of erstwhile Nagpur HC
Syed Jaffer Imam10 1 195531 1 1964Patna10th CJ of Patna HC
Sudhansu Kumar Das30 4 19562 9 1963Patna11th CJ of Patna HC
Parakulangara Govinda Menon1 9 195616 10 1957Madras
Jeevan Lal Kapur14 1 195712 12 1962Punjab & Haryana
Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar ''17 1 195715 3 1966Bombay
Amal Kumar Sarkar ''4 3 195729 6 1966Calcutta
Koka Subba Rao ''31 1 195811 4 1967MadrasCJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Kailas Nath Wanchoo ''11 8 195824 2 1968Allahabad2nd CJ of Rajasthan HC
Mohammad Hidayatullah ''1 12 195816 12 1970Nagpur1st CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Kulada Charan Das Gupta29 8 19592 1 1965Calcutta12th CJ of Calcutta HC
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah ''12 10 195921 1 1971Bombay
Raghubar Dayal27 7 196025.10.1965Allahabad
Narsimha Rajagopala Ayyangar27 7 196014 12 1964Madras
Janardan Raghunath Mudholkar3 10 19603 7 1966Nagpur
Sarv Mittra Sikri '3 2 196425 4 1973N/AN/ABar Council
Ranadhir Singh Bachawat7 9 196431 7 1969Calcutta
Vaidyanathier Ramaswami4 1 196530.10.1969Patna12th CJ of Patna HC
Penmetsa Satyanarayana Raju20 10 196520 4 1966Andhra PradeshCJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Jaishanker Manilal Shelat24 2 196630 4 1973Bombay3rd CJ of Gujarat HC
Vashishtha Bhargava8 8 19664 2 1971Allahabad17th CJ of Allahabad HC
Gopendra Krishna Mitter29 8 196623 9 1971Calcutta
Chittur Anantakrishna Iyer Vaidyialingam10 10 196629 6 1972Kerala
Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde17 7 196730 4 1973Karnataka1st CJ of Delhi HC
Amar Nath Grover11 2 196831 5 1973Punjab & Haryana
Ajit Nath Ray ''1 8 196927 1 1977Calcutta
Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy1 8 196922 1 197516 2 1952Andhra PradeshCJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Inder Dev Dua1 8 19693 10 1972Punjab & Haryana2nd CJ of Delhi HC
Subimal Chandra Roy19 7 197112.11.1971N/AN/ABar Council
Devidas Ganpat Palekar19 7 19713 9 1974Bombay
Hans Raj Khanna22 9 197111 3 1977Punjab & Haryana3rd CJ of Delhi HC
Kuttyil Kurien Mathew4 10 19712 1 1976Kerala
Mirza Hameedullah Beg ''21 2 1978Allahabad1st CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Surendra Narayan Dwivedi14 8 19728 12 197412 5 1959Allahabad
Arun Kumar Mukherjea14 8 197223.10.1973Calcutta
Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud ''28 8 197211 7 1985Bombay
A. Alagiriswami17 10 197216 10 1975Madras
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati ''17 7 197320 12 1986Gujarat5th CJ of Gujarat HC
Vaidyanathapuram Rama Krishna Iyer17 7 197314 11 198012 7 1968Kerala
Parbati Kumar Goswami10 9 197331.12.197712 5 1967Gauhati9th CJ of Gauhati HC
Ranjit Singh Sarkaria17 9 197315 1 198112 6 1967Punjab & Haryana
Alak Chandra Gupta2 9 197431 12 198124 2 1964Calcutta
Nand Lall Untwalia3 10 197431 7 19802 1 1958Patna16th CJ of Patna HC
Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali2 4 197520 8 19859 4 1958Jammu & Kashmir8th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Prakash Narayan Shinghal6 11 197514 10 198021 6 1961Rajasthan9th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Jaswant Singh23 1 197624 1 19793 12 1967Jammu & Kashmir9th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam3 1 197711 9 198020 10 1960Madras17th CJ of Madras HC
Vidyaranya Dattatreya Tulzapurkar30 9 19779 3 1986Bombay
Dhirajlal Ambelal Desai30 9 19778 5 198519 2 1968Gujarat
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak ''20 2 197818 6 1989Allahabad2nd CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Anand Dev Koshal17 7 19786 3 198228 5 1968Punjab & Haryana11th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Ontethupalli Chinnappa Reddy17 7 197824 9 1987Andhra Pradesh
Ananda Prakash Sen17 7 197819 9 1988Madhya Pradesh7th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah ''8 3 1979Karnataka
Baharul Islam4 12 198012 1 1983Gauhati13th CJ of Gauhati HC
Appajee Varadarajan10 12 198016 8 1985Madras
Amarendra Nath Sen28 1 198130 9 1985Calcutta18th CJ of Calcutta HC
Vettath Balakrishna Eradi30 1 198118 6 1987Kerala9th CJ of Kerala HC
Ram Briksha Misra30 1 198115 6 1986Allahabad
Dinshah Pirosha Madon15 3 19836 4 1986Bombay21st CJ of Bombay HC
Sabyasachi Mukherjee ''15 3 198325 9 1990Calcutta
Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar15 3 19833 11 1988Gujarat8th CJ of Gujarat HC
Ranganath Misra ''15 3 1983Orissa10th CJ of Orissa HC
Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid25 6 198430 6 1987Kerala13th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Goverdhan Lal Oza29 10 1985Madhya Pradesh9th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Bankim Chandra Ray29 10 1985Calcutta
Murari Mohan Dutt10 3 1986Calcutta
Kamal Narain Singh ''10 3 1986Allahabad
Sivasankar Natarajan10 3 1986Madras
Madhukar Hiralal Kania ''1 5 198717 11 1992Bombay24th CJ of Bombay HC
Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty1 5 1987Karnataka27th CJ of Allahabad HC
Lalit Mohan Sharma ''5 10 1987Patna
Manepalli Narayanarao Venkatachaliah ''5 10 1987Karnataka
Srinivasachar Ranganathan5 10 198730 10 1992Delhi
Narayan Dutta Ojha18 1 1988Allahabad11th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
S. Ratnavel Pandian14 12 1988Madras
Thamarappallil Kochu Thommen14 12 198825 9 1993Kerala
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi ''14 12 1988Gujarat
Khagendra Nath Saika14 12 1988Gauhati18th CJ of Gauhati HC
Kuldip Singh14 12 1988N/AN/ABar Council
Jagdish Sharan Verma ''Madhya Pradesh16th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Veeraswami Ramaswami6 10 1989Madras16th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Parshuram Babaram Sawant6 10 1989Bombay
Narendra Mohan Kasliwal6 10 1989Rajasthan16th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Madan Mohan Punchhi ''6 10 1989Punjab & Haryana
Katikithala Ramaswamy6 10 1989Andhra Pradesh
Fathima Beevi6 10 198929 4 1992Kerala
K. Jayachandra Reddy11 1 1990Andhra Pradesh
Suresh Chandra Agrawal11 1 1990Rajasthan
Ram Manohar Sahai11 1 1990Allahabad
Yogeshwar Dayal22 3 1991Delhi13th CJ of Delhi HC
Shanmughasundaram Mohan7 10 1991Madras12th CJ of Karnataka HC
Benjaram Pranaya Jeevan Reddy7 10 1991Andhra Pradesh31st CJ of Allahabad HC
Ganendra Narayan Ray7 10 1991Calcutta11th CJ of Gujarat HC
Adarsh Sein Anand ''Jammu & Kashmir24th CJ of Madras HC
Radha Charan Patnaik3 12 199130 5 1992Orissa
Nagendra Prasad Singh15 6 1992Patna26th CJ of Calcutta HC
Sam Piroj Bharucha ''1 7 1992Bombay13th CJ of Karnataka HC
Nanje Gowda Venkatachala1 7 1992Karnataka
Manoj Kumar Mukherjee14 12 1993Calcutta27th CJ of Bombay HC
Faizanuddin14 12 1993Madhya Pradesh
Banwari Lal Hansaria14 12 1993Gauhati13th CJ of Orissa HC
Suhas C. SenCalcutta
Krishnaswami Sundara ParipoornanKerala25th CJ of Patna HC
Shailesh Bhadrayulal Majumdar19 9 1994Gujarat14th CJ of Karnataka HC
Sujata Manohar8 11 199427 8 1999Bombay14th CJ of Kerala HC
Girish Thakorlal Nanavati6 3 1995Gujarat15th CJ of Karnataka HC
Saiyed Saghir Ahmad6 3 1995Allahabad17th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Konduswami Venkataswamy6 3 199518 9 1999Madras26th CJ of Patna HC
Bhupinder Nath Kirpal ''11 9 19957 11 2002Delhi13th CJ of Gujarat HC
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik ''11 9 199518 12 2002Orissa27th CJ of Patna HC
Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar29 3 199615 1 2000Bombay22nd CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Thomas Kallupurackal Thomas29 3 1996Kerala
Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao21 3 1997Andhra Pradesh17th CJ of Delhi HC
Vishweshwar Nath Khare ''21 3 1997Allahabad29th CJ of Calcutta HC
Devinder Pratap Wadhwa21 3 1997Delhi28th CJ of Patna HC
Madhavachari Srinivasan25 9 1997Madras13th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
S. Rajendra Babu ''25 9 1997Karnataka
Ajay Prakash Misra4 12 1997Allahabad18th CJ of Delhi HC
Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri4 12 1997Andhra Pradesh
Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah9 12 1998Gujarat30th CJ of Bombay HC
Deba Priya Mohapatra9 12 1998Orissa35th CJ of Allahabad HC
Umesh Chandra Banerjee9 12 199817 11 2002CalcuttaCJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti ''9 12 1998Madhya Pradesh
N. Santosh Hegde8 1 1999N/AN/ABar Council
Ram Prakash Sethi8 1 1999Jammu & Kashmir18th CJ of Karnataka HC
Sailendu Nath Phukan28 1 1999Gauhati16th CJ of Orissa HC
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal '28 1 2000Delhi31st CJ of Bombay HC
Doraiswamy Raju28 1 2000Madras15th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Ruma Pal28 1 2000Calcutta
Sam Nariman Variava15 3 2000Bombay19th CJ of Delhi HC
Shivaraj Virupanna Patil15 3 2000Karnataka21st CJ of Rajasthan HC
Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan ''8 6 2000Kerala29th CJ of Madras HC
Brijesh Kumar19 10 2000Allahabad25th CJ of Gauhati HC
Biswanath Agrawal19 10 2000Patna17th CJ of Orissa HC
P. Venkatarama Reddi17 8 2001Andhra Pradesh20th CJ of Karnataka HC
Ashok Bhan17 8 2001Punjab & Haryana
Arijit Pasayat19 10 2001Orissa20th CJ of Delhi HC
Bisheshwar Prasad Singh14 12 2001Patna32nd CJ of Bombay HC
Devdatta Madhav Dharmadhikari5 3 2002Madhya Pradesh17th CJ of Gujarat HC
H. K. Sema9 4 2002Gauhati21st CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Satyabrata Sinha3 10 2002Patna21st CJ of Delhi HC
Arun Kumar3 10 2002Delhi23rd CJ of Rajasthan HC
Bellur Narayanswamy Srikrishna3 10 2002Bombay21st CJ of Kerala HC
Arunachalam R. Lakshmanan20 12 2002Madras22nd CJ of Rajasthan HC
Govind Prasad Mathur20 12 2002Allahabad
Sarosh Homi Kapadia ''18 12 200328 9 2012Bombay2nd CJ of Uttarakhand HC
Ashok Kumar Mathur7 6 2004Rajasthan31st CJ of Calcutta HC
Chunilal Karsandas Thakker7 6 2004Gujarat33rd CJ of Bombay HC
Tarun Chatterjee27 8 2004Calcutta38th CJ of Allahabad HC
Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan27 8 2004Kerala2nd CJ of Jharkhand HC
Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar27 8 2004Madhya Pradesh28th CJ of Gauhati HC
Altamas Kabir ''9 9 200518 7 2013Calcutta3rd CJ of Jharkhand HC
Raju Varadarajulu Raveendran9 9 2005Karnataka18th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Dalveer Bhandari28 10 2005Delhi34th CJ of Bombay HC
Lokeshwar Singh Panta3 2 2006Himachal Pradesh
Devinder Kumar Jain10 4 200624 1 2013Delhi26th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Markandey Katju10 4 2006Allahabad23rd CJ of Delhi HC
Harjit Singh Bedi12 1 2007Punjab & Haryana36th CJ of Bombay HC
Vikas Sridhar Sirpurkar12 1 2007Bombay32nd CJ of Calcutta HC
Buchireddy Sudershan Reddy12 1 2007Andhra Pradesh30th CJ of Gauhati HC
Palanisamy Sathasivam '21 8 2007Madras
Ganpat Singh Singhvi12 11 200712 12 2013RajasthanCJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Aftab Alam12 11 200718 4 2013Patna
Jagdish Madhurlal Panchal12 11 2007Gujarat26th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Mukundakam Sharma9 4 2008Gauhati24th CJ of Delhi HC
Cyriac Joseph7 7 2008Kerala23rd CJ of Karnataka HC
Asok Kumar Ganguly17 12 2008Calcutta34th CJ of Madras HC
Rajendra Mal Lodha ''17 12 2008Rajasthan33rd CJ of Patna HC
Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu ''17 12 20082 12 2015Karnataka27th CJ of Kerala HC
Deepak Verma11 5 2009Madhya Pradesh28th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Balbir Singh Chauhan11 5 20091 7 2014Allahabad22nd CJ of Orissa HC
Ananga Kumar Patnaik17 11 2009Orissa19th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Tirath Singh Thakur ''17 11 20093 1 2017Jammu & Kashmir28th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Kalavamkodath Sivasankara Panicker Radhakrishnan17 11 2009Kerala21st CJ of Gujarat HC
Surinder Singh Nijjar17 11 2009Punjab & Haryana33rd CJ of Calcutta HC
Swatanter Kumar18 12 2009Delhi37th CJ of Bombay HC
Chandramauli Kumar Prasad8 2 201014 7 2014Patna41st CJ of Allahabad HC
Hemant Laxman Gokhale30 4 2010Bombay35th CJ of Madras HC
Gyan Sudha Misra30 4 2010Patna6th CJ of Jharkhand HC
Anil Ramesh Dave30 4 2010Gujarat38th CJ of Bombay HC
Sudhanshu Joshi Mukhopadhaya13 9 201114 3 2015Patna22nd CJ of Gujarat HC
Ranjana Prakash Desai13 9 2011Bombay
Jagdish Singh Khehar ''13 9 201127 8 2017Punjab & Haryana25th CJ of Karnataka HC
Dipak Misra ''10 10 20112 10 2018Orissa26th CJ of Delhi HC
Jasti Chelameswar10 10 2011Andhra Pradesh29th CJ of Kerala HC
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla2 4 2012Madras29th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Ranjan Gogoi ''23 4 201217 11 2019Gauhati30th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Madan Lokur4 6 2012Delhi33rd CJ of Gauhati HC
Mokhtarajama Yusuf Eqbal24 12 2012Jharkhand36th CJ of Madras HC
Venkate Gopala Gowda24 12 2012Karnataka24th CJ of Orissa HC
Vikramajit Sen24 12 2012Delhi26th CJ of Karnataka HC
Pinaki Chandra Ghose8 3 201327 5 2017CalcuttaCJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Kurian Joseph8 3 2013Kerala20th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Arjan Kumar Sikri12 4 2013Delhi31st CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Sharad Arvind Bobde ''12 4 201323 4 2021Bombay21st CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Shiva Kirti Singh19 9 2013Patna44th CJ of Allahabad HC
Chokkalingam Nagappan19 9 2013Madras25th CJ of Orissa HC
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal17 2 20144 5 2018Allahabad37th CJ of Madras HC
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana ''17 2 201426 8 2022Andhra Pradesh28th CJ of Delhi HC
Arun Kumar Mishra7 7 20142 9 2020Madhya Pradesh36th CJ of Calcutta HC
Adarsh Kumar Goel7 7 2014Punjab & Haryana26th CJ of Orissa HC
Rohinton Fali Nariman7 7 201412 8 2021N/AN/ABar Council
Abhay Manohar Sapre13 8 2014Madhya Pradesh33rd CJ of Gauhati HC
R. Banumathi13 8 2014Madras9th CJ of Jharkhand HC
Prafulla Chandra Pant13 8 201429 8 2017Uttarakhand2nd CJ of Meghalaya HC
Uday Umesh Lalit '13 8 20148 11 2022N/AN/ABar Council
Amitava Roy27 2 20151 3 2018Gauhati27tht CJ of Orissa HC
Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar13 5 201629 7 2022Bombay22nd CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud ''13 5 201610 11 2024Bombay45th CJ of Allahabad HC
Ashok Bhushan13 5 20164 7 2021Allahabad31st CJ of Kerala HC
Lavu Nageswara Rao13 5 20167 6 2022N/AN/ABar Council
Sanjay Kishan Kaul17 2 201725 12 2023Delhi38th CJ of Madras HC
Mohan Shantanagoudar17 2 201724 4 2021Karnataka32nd CJ of Kerala HC
Syed Abdul Nazeer17 2 20174 1 2023Karnataka
Navin Sinha17 2 201718 8 2021Patna34th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Deepak Gupta17 2 2017Himachal Pradesh10th CJ of Chhattisgarh HC
Indu Malhotra27 4 201813 3 2021N/AN/ABar Council
Indira Banerjee7 8 201823 9 2022Calcutta39th CJ of Madras HC
Vineet Saran7 8 201810 5 2022Allahabad29th CJ of Orissa HC
Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph7 8 201816 6 2023Kerala9th CJ of Uttarakhand HC
Hemant Gupta2 11 201816.10.2022Punjab & Haryana23rd CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy2 11 20184 1 2022Andhra Pradesh24th CJ of Gujarat HC
Mukesh Rasikbhai Shah2 11 201815 5 2023Gujarat41st CJ of Patna HC
Ajay Rastogi2 11 201817 6 2023Rajasthan3rd CJ of Tripura HC
Dinesh Maheshwari18 1 201914 5 2023Rajasthan29th CJ of Karnataka HC
Sanjiv Khanna ''18 1 201913 5 2025Delhi
Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai '24 5 201923.11.2025Bombay
Aniruddha Bose24 5 201910 4 2024Calcutta12th CJ of Jharkhand HC
Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna24 5 201919 5 2024Karnataka37th CJ of Gauhati HC
Krishna Murari23 9 20198 7 2023Allahabad34th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Shripathi Ravindra Bhat23 9 201920 10 2023Delhi36th CJ of Rajasthan HC
V. Ramasubramanian23 9 201929 6 2023Madras24th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Hrishikesh Roy23 9 201931 1 2025Gauhati35th CJ of Kerala HC
Abhay Shreeniwas Oka31 8 202124 5 2025Bombay30th CJ of Karnataka HC
Hima Kohli31 8 20211 9 2024Delhi3rd CJ of Telangana HC
Chudalayil Thevan Ravikumar31 8 20215 1 2025Kerala
Bela Trivedi31 8 20219 6 202517 2 2011Gujarat
Sudhanshu Dhulia9 5 20229 8 2025Uttarakhand39th CJ of Gauhati HC