Anandamoy Bhattacharjee

Bengali Indian jurist

Anandamoy Bhattacharjee (20 December 1933 – 16 January 2008) was a Bengali Indian jurist, who served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court and the Bombay High Court between 1993 and 1995. He had also served as an acting chief justice of the Sikkim High Court.[1][2]

## Early life

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He was born on 20 December 1933 and was educated at the Siliguri Boys High School in Siliguri, the St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College, the Scottish Church College both in Kolkata and at Department of Law, University of Calcutta.[1][3][4]

## Career

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He enrolled as an advocate of the Calcutta High Court in January 1957. He practiced civil and criminal in the district courts of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri and at Gangtok (in Sikkim). He had also worked as legal adviser to the Government of Sikkim from May 1972.[1][4]

He was appointed a judge in the Sikkim High Court in June 1976, and was appointed acting chief justice there in January 1985. He was transferred as judge to the Calcutta High Court in February 1986, and was the acting chief justice there from June 1992. He served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in January 1993 to 1994, and was subsequently transferred as the chief justice of the Bombay High Court in April 1994 where he stayed in office till April 1995.[1][4]

He had after his retirement, served as a visiting faculty at the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Chief Justice Anandamoy Bhattacharjee
2. ^ "Bio-Data of Former Judge of Sikkim High Court". Archived from the original on 14 April 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
3. ^ Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 591
4. ^ a b c Notable alumni

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