Baharul Islam

For other uses, see Baharul Islam (disambiguation).

Baharul Islam
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
15 June 1983 – 14 June 1989 [1]
In office
3 April 1962 – 20 January 1972
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office
4 December 1980 – 12 January 1983
Personal details
Born(1918-03-01)1 March 1918
Died5 February 1993(1993-02-05) (aged 74)
Political partyIndian National Congress[2]
Alma materFaculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University
Islam in Beijing, China, attending the Forum for Safeguarding World Peace (June 1985).

Baharul Islam (1 March 1918 – 5 February 1993) was an Indian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of India.[3][4] He was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, as a member of the Indian National Congress. In 1972, he resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a judge in the Gauhati High Court, where he eventually retired as Chief Justice. He was later recalled and appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court, where he delivered a judgment absolving the then-Chief Minister of Bihar, Jagannath Mishra, in the urban cooperative bank scandal.[5] He subsequently resigned from the Supreme Court to contest elections as a Congress party candidate and was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha.[6][7][8][2]

Islam in Hungary as a Member of Parliament, September 1985.
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  2. ^ a b "Removal motion against CJI a remarkable piece of skullduggery". Dhananjay Mahapatra. The Times of India. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Former Judges: Baharul Islam". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  4. ^ Kalbag, Chaitanya (31 January 1983). "Ends of Justice". India Today. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Collegium 2.0". Sudhansu Ranjan. Asian Age. 3 November 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Justice Baharul Islam tenders his resignation from SC Bench to President Zail Singh". Chaitanya Kalbag. India Today. 31 July 1983. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  7. ^ M.V. Pylee (1998). Emerging Trends of Indian Polity. Regency Publications. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-81-86030-75-2.
  8. ^ Abhinav Chandrachud (29 May 2018). Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-89. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. pp. 183–. ISBN 978-93-5305-021-4.