Kailas Nath Wanchoo

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Kailas Wanchoo
10th Chief Justice of India
In office 12 April 1967 – 24 February 1968
Appointed by	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Preceded by	K. Subba Rao
Succeeded by	M. Hidayatullah
Judge of Supreme Court of India
In office 11 August 1958 – 11 April 1967
Appointed by	Rajendra Prasad
Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court
In office 2 January 1951 – 10 August 1958
Appointed by	Rajendra Prasad
Judge of Allahabad High Court
In office 17 February 1947 – 1 January 1951
Personal details
Born	(1903-02-25)25 February 1903
Died	14 August 1988 (aged 85)

Kailas Nath Wanchoo (25 February 1903 – 14 August 1988) was the tenth Chief Justice of India.

He was born in Allahabad into a Kashmiri Pandit family and was educated on primary at Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh and middle at Pandit Pirthi Nath High School, Kanpur, Muir Central College, Allahabad and Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Civil Service as Joint Magistrate on 1 December 1926 in Uttar Pradesh.