Aniruddha Bose (born 11 April 1959) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the

Jharkhand High Court The Jharkhand High Court is one of the newest high courts in India. It was established in 2000. The court has jurisdiction over Jharkhand state. The seat of the court is at Ranchi, the administrative capital of the state. The court has a sa ...

and judge of the Calcutta High Court.

Education & career

Bose was educated at the St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata, and was graduated in B. Com from the

St. Xavier's College, Kolkata St. Xavier's College is a private, Catholic, autonomous higher education college under Calcutta University run by the Calcutta Province of the Society of Jesus in Kolkata, India. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1860 and named after St. F ...

. He then completed the

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from the Surendranath Law College,

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

. After the enrollment he started practice on constitutional, civil and intellectual property matters in the Calcutta High Court in 1985. Bose worked in the original side as well as the appellate side of the High Court. He was elevated as permanent judge of the Calcutta High Court in January 2004. His name was recommended for elevation as the Chief Justice of

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but returned by the

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, with the observation that he does not have the experience to handle the affairs of a prominent High Court like Delhi. The collegium reconsidered the proposal and he was transferred to

as chief justice on 4 August 2018. On 24 May 2019 he was elevated as a judge of Supreme Court of India.

References

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