List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India
Former Justices (In sequence of date of retirement)

List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India

Section Title: Former Justices (In sequence of date of retirement)
Table Section Text: None

S.no.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure Length

1	Syed Fazl Ali	26 January 1950	30 May 1952	2 years, 125 days

2	N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar	23 September 1950	24 January 1953	2 years, 123 days

3	Ghulam Hasan	8 September 1952	5 November 1954	2 years, 58 days

4	Vivian Bose	5 March 1951	9 June 1956	5 years, 96 days

5	P. Govinda Menon	1 September 1956	16 October 1957	1 year, 45 days

6	B. Jagannadhadas	9 March 1953	26 July 1958	5 years, 139 days

7	T. L. Venkatarama Aiyyar	4 January 1954	24 November 1958	4 years, 324 days

8	Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati	8 September 1952	6 June 1959	6 years, 271 days

9	J. L. Kapur	14 January 1957	12 December 1962	5 years, 332 days

10	S. K. Das	30 April 1956	2 September 1963	7 years, 125 days

11	Syed Jaffer Imam	10 January 1955	31 January 1964	9 years, 21 days

12	N. Rajagopala Ayyangar	27 July 1960	14 December 1964	4 years, 140 days

13	K. C. Das Gupta	24 August 1959	2 January 1965	5 years, 131 days

14	Raghubar Dayal	27 July 1960	25 October 1965	5 years, 90 days

15	P. Satyanarayana Raju	20 October 1965	20 April 1966	182 days

16	J. R. Mudholkar	3 October 1960	3 July 1966	5 years, 273 days

17	R. S. Bachawat	7 September 1964	31 July 1969	4 years, 327 days

18	V. Ramaswami	4 January 1965	29 October 1969	4 years, 298 days

19	Vashishtha Bhargava	8 August 1966	4 February 1971	4 years, 180 days

20	G. K. Mitter	29 August 1966	23 September 1971	5 years, 25 days

21	Subimal Chandra Roy	19 June 1971	12 November 1971	146 days

22	C. A. Vaidyialingam	10 October 1966	29 June 1972	5 years, 263 days

23	I. D. Dua	1 August 1969	3 October 1972	3 years, 63 days

24	J. M. Shelat	24 February 1966	30 April 1973	7 years, 65 days

25	K. S. Hegde	17 July 1967	30 April 1973	5 years, 287 days

26	A. N. Grover	11 February 1968	31 May 1973	5 years, 109 days

27	A. K. Mukherjea	14 August 1972	23 October 1973	1 year, 70 days

28	D. G. Palekar	19 July 1971	3 September 1974	3 years, 46 days

29	S. N. Dwivedi	14 August 1972	8 December 1974	2 years, 55 days

30	P. Jaganmohan Reddy	1 August 1969	22 January 1975	5 years, 174 days

31	A. Alagiriswami	17 October 1972	16 October 1975	2 years, 364 days

32	Kuttyil Kurien Mathew	4 October 1971	2 January 1976	4 years, 90 days

33	Hans Raj Khanna	22 September 1971	11 March 1977	5 years, 170 days

34	Parbati Kumar Goswami	10 September 1973	31 December 1977	4 years, 112 days

35	Jaswant Singh	23 January 1976	24 January 1979	3 years, 1 day

36	N. L. Untwalia	3 October 1974	31 July 1980	5 years, 302 days

37	P.S. Kailasam	3 January 1977	11 September 1980	3 years, 252 days

38	P. N. Shingal	6 November 1975	14 October 1980	4 years, 343 days

39	V. R. Krishna Iyer	17 July 1973	14 November 1980	7 years, 120 days

40	R. S. Sarkaria	17 September 1973	15 January 1981	7 years, 120 days

41	Alak Chandra Gupta	2 September 1974	31 December 1981	7 years, 120 days

42	A. D. Koshal	17 July 1978	6 March 1982	3 years, 232 days

43	Baharul Islam	4 December 1980	12 January 1983	2 years, 39 days

44	D. A. Desai	30 September 1977	8 May 1985	7 years, 220 days

45	A. Varadarajan	10 December 1980	16 August 1985	4 years, 249 days

46	Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali	2 April 1975	20 August 1985	10 years, 140 days

47	Amarendra Nath Sen	28 January 1981	30 September 1985	4 years, 245 days

48	V. D. Tulzapurkar	30 September 1977	8 March 1986	8 years, 159 days

49	Dinshah Pirosha Madon	15 March 1983	6 April 1986	3 years, 22 days

50	R. B. Misra	30 January 1981	14 June 1986	5 years, 135 days

51	V. Balakrishna Eradi	30 January 1981	18 June 1987	6 years, 139 days

52	Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid	25 June 1984	30 June 1987	3 years, 5 days

53	O. Chinnappa Reddy	17 July 1978	24 September 1987	9 years, 69 days

54	Ananda Prakash Sen	17 July 1978	19 September 1988	10 years, 64 days

55	Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar	15 March 1983	3 November 1988	5 years, 233 days

56	S. Natarajan	10 March 1986	28 October 1989	3 years, 232 days

57	M. M. Dutt	10 March 1986	29 October 1989	3 years, 233 days

58	Goverdhan Lal Oza	29 October 1985	11 December 1989	4 years, 43 days

59	Narayan Dutta Ojha	18 January 1988	18 January 1991	3 years, 0 days

60	K.N. Saikia	14 December 1988	28 February 1991	2 years, 76 days

61	B. C. Ray	29 October 1985	31 October 1991	6 years, 2 days

62	K. Jagannatha Shetty	1 May 1987	14 December 1991	4 years, 227 days

63	Fathima Beevi	6 October 1989	29 April 1992	2 years, 206 days

64	R.C. Patnaik	3 December 1991	30 May 1992	179 days

65	S. Ranganathan	5 October 1987	30 October 1992	5 years, 25 days

66	Narendra Mohan Kasliwal	6 October 1989	3 April 1993	3 years, 179 days

67	T.K. Thommen	14 December 1988	25 September 1993	4 years, 285 days

68	V. Ramaswami	6 October 1989	14 February 1994	4 years, 131 days

69	S. Ratnavel Pandian	14 December 1988	12 March 1994	5 years, 88 days

70	K. Jayachandra Reddy	11 January 1990	14 July 1994	4 years, 184 days

71	Yogeshwar Dayal	22 March 1991	2 August 1994	3 years, 133 days

72	S. Mohan	7 October 1991	10 February 1995	3 years, 126 days

73	R.M. Sahai	11 January 1990	24 June 1995	5 years, 164 days

74	P. B. Sawant	6 October 1989	29 June 1995	5 years, 266 days

75	N. Venkatachala	1 July 1992	2 July 1995	3 years, 1 day

76	Kuldip Singh	14 December 1988	21 December 1996	8 years, 7 days

77	N.P. Singh	15 June 1992	24 December 1996	4 years, 192 days

78	B.L. Hansaria	14 December 1993	24 December 1996	3 years, 71 days

79	Faizanuddin	14 December 1993	4 February 1997	3 years, 113 days

80	B.P. Jeevan Reddy	7 October 1991	13 March 1997	5 years, 157 days

81	K.S. Paripoornan	11 June 1994	11 June 1997	3 years, 0 days

82	K. Ramaswamy	6 October 1989	12 July 1997	7 years, 279 days

83	S.C. Sen	11 June 1994	20 December 1997	3 years, 192 days

84	Ganendra Narayan Ray	7 October 1991	30 April 1998	6 years, 205 days

85	S.C. Agrawal	11 January 1990	4 September 1998	8 years, 236 days

86	M.K. Mukherjee	14 December 1993	30 November 1998	4 years, 351 days

87	Sujata V. Manohar	8 November 1994	27 August 1999	4 years, 292 days

88	K. Venkataswami	6 March 1995	18 September 1999	4 years, 196 days

89	Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar	29 March 1996	15 January 2000	3 years, 292 days

90	G. T. Nanavati	6 March 1995	16 February 2000	4 years, 347 days

91	M. Srinivasan	25 September 1997	25 February 2000	2 years, 153 days

92	D.P. Wadhwa	21 March 1997	4 May 2000	3 years, 44 days

93	S. Saghir Ahmad	6 March 1995	30 June 2000	5 years, 116 days

94	S.B. Majmudar	19 September 1994	19 August 2000	5 years, 335 days

95	M. Jagannadha Rao	21 March 1997	1 December 2000	3 years, 255 days

96	Ajay Prakash Misra	4 December 1997	31 August 2001	3 years, 270 days

97	K.T. Thomas	29 March 1996	29 January 2002	5 years, 306 days

98	Sailendu Nath Phukan	28 January 1999	31 March 2002	3 years, 62 days

99	Ram Prakash Sethi	8 January 1999	6 July 2002	3 years, 179 days

100	D. P. Mohapatra	9 December 1998	2 August 2002	3 years, 236 days

101	Umesh Chandra Banerjee	9 December 1998	17 November 2002	3 years, 343 days

102	Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri	4 December 1997	5 April 2003	5 years, 122 days

103	M.B. Shah	9 December 1998	24 September 2003	4 years, 289 days

104	Brijesh Kumar	19 October 2000	9 June 2004	3 years, 234 days

105	Doraiswamy Raju	28 January 2000	1 July 2004	4 years, 155 days

106	N. Santosh Hegde	8 January 1999	16 June 2005	6 years, 159 days

107	Shivaraj V. Patil	15 March 2000	11 January 2005	4 years, 302 days

108	P. Venkatarama Reddi	17 August 2001	9 August 2005	3 years, 357 days

109	D.M. Dharmadhikari	5 March 2002	13 August 2005	3 years, 161 days

110	Sam Nariman Variava	15 March 2000	7 November 2005	5 years, 237 days

111	Arun Kumar	3 October 2002	11 April 2006	3 years, 190 days

112	B.N. Srikrishna	3 October 2002	20 May 2006	3 years, 229 days

113	Ruma Pal	28 January 2000	2 June 2006	6 years, 125 days

114	A.R. Lakshmanan	20 December 2002	21 March 2007	4 years, 91 days

115	B.P. Singh	14 December 2001	8 July 2007	5 years, 206 days

116	P.K. Balasubramanyan	27 August 2004	27 August 2007	3 years, 0 days

117	G.P. Mathur	20 December 2002	19 January 2008	5 years, 30 days

118	H.K. Sema	9 April 2002	1 June 2008	6 years, 53 days

119	P.P. Naolekar	27 August 2004	29 June 2008	3 years, 307 days

120	Ashok Kumar Mathur	7 June 2004	7 August 2008	4 years, 61 days

121	Ashok Bhan	17 August 2001	2 October 2008	7 years, 46 days

122	Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	7 June 2004	10 November 2008	4 years, 156 days

123	Lokeshwar Singh Panta	3 February 2006	23 April 2009	3 years, 79 days

124	Arijit Pasayat	19 October 2001	10 May 2009	7 years, 203 days

125	Satya Brata Sinha	3 October 2002	8 August 2009	6 years, 309 days

126	B.N. Agrawal	19 October 2000	15 October 2009	8 years, 361 days

127	Tarun Chatterjee	27 August 2004	14 January 2010	5 years, 140 days

128	B. Sudershan Reddy	12 January 2007	7 July 2011	4 years, 176 days

129	V.S. Sirpurkar	12 January 2007	21 August 2011	4 years, 221 days

130	Harjit Singh Bedi	12 January 2007	4 September 2011	4 years, 235 days

131	Mukundakam Sharma	9 April 2008	17 September 2011	3 years, 161 days

132	Markandey Katju	10 April 2006	19 September 2011	5 years, 162 days

133	J.M. Panchal	12 November 2007	5 October 2011	3 years, 327 days

134	R.V. Raveendran	9 September 2005	15 October 2011	6 years, 36 days

135	Cyriac Joseph	7 July 2008	27 January 2012	3 years, 204 days

136	Asok Kumar Ganguly	17 December 2008	3 February 2012	3 years, 48 days

137	Dalveer Bhandari	28 October 2005	27 April 2012	6 years, 182 days

138	Deepak Verma	11 May 2009	28 August 2012	3 years, 109 days

139	Swatanter Kumar	18 December 2009	19 December 2012	3 years, 1 day

140	D.K. Jain	10 April 2006	24 January 2013	6 years, 289 days

141	Aftab Alam	12 November 2007	18 April 2013	5 years, 157 days

142	G.S. Singhvi	12 November 2007	12 December 2013	6 years, 30 days

143	H.L. Gokhale	30 April 2010	10 March 2014	3 years, 314 days

144	Gyan Sudha Misra	30 April 2010	27 April 2014	3 years, 362 days

145	K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan	17 November 2009	14 May 2014	4 years, 178 days

146	Ananga Kumar Patnaik	17 November 2009	2 June 2014	4 years, 197 days

147	Surinder Singh Nijjar	17 November 2009	6 June 2014	4 years, 201 days

148	Balbir Singh Chauhan	11 May 2009	1 July 2014	5 years, 51 days

149	Chandramauli Kumar Prasad	8 February 2010	14 July 2014	4 years, 156 days

150	Ranjana P. Desai	13 September 2011	29 October 2014	3 years, 46 days

151	Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya	13 September 2011	14 March 2015	3 years, 182 days

152	Vikramajit Sen	24 December 2012	30 December 2015	3 years, 6 days

153	M. Y. Eqbal	24 December 2012	31 December 2015	3 years, 7 days

154	Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla	2 April 2012	22 July 2016	4 years, 111 days

155	Chockalingam Nagappan	19 September 2013	3 October 2016	3 years, 14 days

156	Venkate Gopala Gowda	24 December 2012	5 October 2016	3 years, 286 days

157	Shiva Kirti Singh	19 September 2013	11 November 2016	3 years, 53 days

158	Anil R. Dave	30 April 2010	18 November 2016	6 years, 202 days

159	Pinaki Chandra Ghose	8 March 2013	27 May 2017	4 years, 80 days

160	Prafulla Chandra Pant	13 August 2014	29 August 2017	3 years, 16 days

161	Amitava Roy	27 February 2015	1 March 2018	3 years, 2 days

162	Rajesh Kumar Agrawal	17 February 2014	4 May 2018	4 years, 76 days

163	Jasti Chelameswar	10 October 2011	22 June 2018	6 years, 255 days

164	Adarsh Kumar Goel	7 July 2014	6 July 2018	3 years, 364 days

165	Kurian Joseph	8 March 2013	29 November 2018	5 years, 266 days

166	Madan Bhimrao Lokur	4 June 2012	30 December 2018	6 years, 209 days

167	Arjan Kumar Sikri	12 April 2013	6 March 2019	5 years, 328 days

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Fathima Beevi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Fathima Beevi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
M. Fathima Beevi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

final_sentence: Fathima Beevi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
final_sentence: Fathima Beevi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
final_sentence: M. Fathima Beevi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.