Raghunandan Swarup Pathak - Wikipedia Raghunandan Swarup Pathak This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( February 2014 ) R.S. Pathak 18th Chief Justice of India In office 21 December 1986 -- 18 June 1989 Nominated by Collegium of judges headed by CJI YV Chandrachud Appointed by President Giani Zail Singh Preceded by P.N. Bhagwati Succeeded by E.S. Venkataramiah Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Preceded by Prakash Chandra Tatia D.N. Patel ( acting ) Personal details ( 1924 - 11 - 25 ) 25 November 1924 17 November 2007 ( 2007 - 11 - 17 ) ( aged 82 ) Raghunandan Swarup Pathak, ( R.S. Pathak ) ( 25 November 1924 -- 17 November 2007 ) was the 18th Chief Justice of India. He was the son of Gopal Swarup Pathak, a former Vice President of India. He was one of the three judges from India to have been on the International Court of Justice in The Hague ( the others being Nagendra Singh who served as its President from 1985 to 1988 and former Supreme Court justice Dalveer Bhandari, who currently sits upon the World Court ). He did his schooling from St. Joseph 's College, Allahabad and had studied law at Allahabad University. After practising law at Allahabad, he became Judge at Allahabad High Court in 1962 and later Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court in 1972. Contents 1 At the Supreme Court of India 2 Bhopal gas disaster 3 Judge of the International Court of Justice 4 Oil - for - Food Programme inquiry 5 Death 6 References 7 External links At the Supreme Court of India Pathak was made a judge at Supreme Court of India in 1978 and became its 18th Chief Justice on 21 December 1986. He is remembered as a judge who was a man of the middle and was able to bring relative peace to the Court. He served as Chief justice for two and a half years during which time a dozen judges were appointed to the Court. Five of them -- Madhukar Hiralal Kania, Lalit Mohan Sharma, Manepalle Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah, Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi, and Jagdish Sharan Verma -- went on to serve as Chief Justices between 1991 and 1998. Bhopal gas disaster Pathak facilitated an out of court settlement between Union Carbide Corporation and the Government of India in 1989 regarding the compensation to be paid for the Bhopal gas tragedy. The government had sought $3.3 billion but received only $470 million and the settlement resulted in the dropping of criminal liability charges against Carbide in the case. Within three months of his retirement Pathak became a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The Supreme Court in 1991 upheld the settlement in 1991 thus ending Carbide 's liability in the case. Judge of the International Court of Justice Pathak was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice and served in that position from 1989 to 1991. He was elected in `` casual election '' that was held following the death of M. Nagendra Singh, an Indian judge who was then serving his second term at the International Court. In 1991 India decided not to renominate Pathak, who however entered the fray with the backing of Ireland. After the Irish government came under attack in the Dáil from MPs who blamed Pathak for approving, as Chief Justice of India, the $470 - million Bhopal gas disaster settlement with Union Carbide, Pathak withdrew from the race. Oil - for - food Programme inquiry Main article : Oil - for - Food Programme In November 2005, Justice Pathak was appointed to inquire into alleged Indian links in the Oil - for - Food Programme. On 3 August 2006, he submitted his 90 - page report which indicted suspended Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh. Death R.S. Pathak died on 17 November 2007, at the age of 82 following a heart attack. References Jump up ^ `` Former CJI Pathak dead ''. The Indian Express. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Jump up ^ Nagendra Singh, Judge At the World Court, 74 New York Times, 13 December 1988. Jump up ^ `` Former Hon'ble Chief Justices ' of India ''. Retrieved 21 February 2012. Jump up ^ `` Judges of the Supreme Court of India : 1950 - 1989 - The Pathak Court ( 1986 -- 9 ) ''. Oxford university Press. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` For A Few Pieces Of Silver ''. Tehelka. 26 June 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` Spotlight on judges who ruled in favour of Union Carbide ''. DNA. 10 June 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Jump up ^ Keswani, Raajkumar ( 9 June 2010 ). `` Bhopal verdict : Worst legal disaster of recent history ''. The Tribune. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` Centre to press for Dow picking up clean - up tab ''. Times of India. 20 June 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` After two decades wait, India looking to get slot in ICJ ''. The Hindu. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` Oil - for - food : Pathak committee indicts Natwar ''. The Times of India. 3 Aug 2006. Retrieved 24 September 2012. Jump up ^ Former CJI RS Pathak passes away Legal offices Preceded by Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati Chief Justice of India 21 December 1986 -- 6 June 1989 Succeeded by Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah Chief Justices of India H.J. Kania M. Patanjali Sastri Mehr Chand Mahajan Bijan Kumar Mukherjea Sudhi Ranjan Das Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha P.B. Gajendragadkar Amal Kumar Sarkar Koka Subba Rao Kailas Nath Wanchoo Mohammad Hidayatullah Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah Sarv Mittra Sikri Ajit Nath Ray Mirza Hameedullah Beg Y.V. Chandrachud P.N. Bhagwati Raghunandan Swarup Pathak Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah Sabyasachi Mukharji Ranganath Misra Kamal Narain Singh Madhukar Hiralal Kania Lalit Mohan Sharma Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi J.S. Verma Madan Mohan Punchhi Adarsh Sein Anand Sam Piroj Bharucha Bhupinder Nath Kirpal Gopal Ballav Pattanaik V.N. Khare S. Rajendra Babu Ramesh Chandra Lahoti Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal K.G. Balakrishnan S.H. Kapadia Altamas Kabir P. Sathasivam Rajendra Mal Lodha H.L. Dattu T.S. Thakur Jagdish Singh Khehar Dipak Misra External links Official Supreme Court of India Website Works by or about Raghunandan Swarup Pathak in libraries ( WorldCat catalog ) VIAF : 112671415 LCCN : n89209173 ISNI : 0000 0001 1480 1843 GND : 104212268 BNF : cb123957886 ( data ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raghunandan_Swarup_Pathak&oldid=796721699 '' Categories : Chief Justices of India 1924 births 2007 deaths International Court of Justice judges Chief Justices of the Himachal Pradesh High Court 20th - century Indian judges Judges of the Allahabad High Court 20th - century Indian lawyers Hidden categories : Use Indian English from August 2015 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Use dmy dates from August 2015 Articles lacking in - text citations from February 2014 All articles lacking in - text citations Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch हिन्दी ಕನ್ನಡ मराठी Nederlands Edit links This page was last edited on 22 August 2017, at 17 : 46. 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