Rana Bhagwandas

Rana Bhagwandas
رانا بھگوان داس
راڻا ڀڳوانداس
Chief Justice of Pakistan
Acting
In office
24 March 2007 – 20 July 2007
Appointed byPervez Musharraf
Preceded byJavaid Iqbal (Acting)
Succeeded byIftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Personal details
Born(1942-12-20)20 December 1942
Naseerabad, Sind Province, British India
(now Pakistan)
Died23 February 2015(2015-02-23) (aged 72)
Karachi, Pakistan

Rana Bhagwandas (20 December 1942 – 23 February 2015) was a Pakistani jurist who served as a senior judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP). He enjoyed extremely high reputation as a judge.[1] He remained the acting CJP during the 2007 judicial crisis in Pakistan, and also briefly became the acting Chief Justice of Pakistan when the incumbent Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry went on foreign tours in 2005 and 2006,[2] and thus became the first Hindu and the second non-Muslim to serve as chief of the highest court in Pakistan.[3][4][5][6] Rana Bhagwandas also worked as the Chairman of Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan. He headed the interview panel for the selection of the federal civil servants in 2009.

  1. ^ Newspaper, the (13 August 2013). "Bhagwandas as NAB chief".
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  3. ^ Hindu named Pakistan's Chief Justice – Rediff, 1 September 2005.
  4. ^ "Success Despite the Odds - The Big Story News". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. ^ "'Country first, then religion'". Rediff.com. 6 April 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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