Amarendra Nath Sen (born 1 October 1920) was a

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Indian jurist, who served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1979 and as a judge in the Supreme Court of India. His grandfather

Baikuntha Nath Sen Baikuntha Nath Sen (1843 – 1922) was a Bengali scholar, lawyer and philanthropist. His grandson Amarendra Nath Sen was a judge of Supreme Court of India. Early life Sen was born in a Zamindar family of Alampur village in Bardhaman district in ...

was a notable political leader and prominent lawyer of

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Early life and education

Born on 1 October 1920, he studied at the Saidabad Hardinge H.E. School in Murshidabad, the

Krishnath College Murshidabad University is a public state university in Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal. The university was established in 2021 by the West Bengal government under ''The Murshidabad University Act, 2018''. History The institution was estab ...

in Berhampore, the

Scottish Church College Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in A ...

and the Hazra Law College of the

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.''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 591 Subsequently, he passed his Barrister-at-Law examinations from the

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in London.

Career

He had started out as an advocate at the Calcutta High Court prior to independence in January 1947. He dealt with mainly civil cases in the Calcutta High Court. He was appointed an additional judge, and later a permanent judge there in 1966. He was appointed the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in December 1979. He was appointed a judge in the Supreme Court of India in January 1981. He retired in September 1985.

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1920 births Indian barristers Judges of the Calcutta High Court Justices of the Supreme Court of India Members of the Inner Temple Scottish Church College alumni University of Calcutta alumni Possibly living people Chief Justices of the Calcutta High Court 20th-century Indian judges 20th-century Indian lawyers Krishnath College alumni {{India-law-bio-stub