Guman Mal Lodha (1926 – 22 March 2009) was the chief justice of

Gauhati High Court The Gauhati High Court was promulgated by governor general of India on 1 March 1948 after the '' Government of India Act 1935'' was passed. Establishing the High Court of Assam with effect from 5 April 1948, for the then Province of Assam. It ...

and former member of

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. Born in 1926 in

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, India, Lodha graduated with BCom and LLB degrees at Jaswant College,

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. He participated in the freedom movement and was imprisoned in 1942. He joined politics and was the President of

state unit of

Jan Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) (ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the pol ...

from 1969 to 1971.

Positions held

* 1969-71 President, Jan Sangh, Rajasthan * 1972-77 Member, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly; chairman, Committee on Petitions and Committee on Delegated Legislation, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Member, Business Advisory Committee and Panel of chairman, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly; Leader, Jan Sangh Legislature Party, Rajasthan * 1978-88 Judge, Rajasthan High Court * 1988 Chief Justice, Gauhati High Court, Guwahati * 1989 Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth) * 1989 onwards Member, National Executive, B.J.P. * 1989-91 Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Law and Justice * 1990-91 Member, General Purposes Committee * 1991 Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) * 1992-94 Member, Committee on Subordinate Legislation * 1992-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance * 1996 Elected to Lok Sabha (Eleventh) for the third time Lodha had been a judge in Rajasthan High court and retired as Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. He had also been a worker for the cause of animals and cows in India. He served as the chairman for Animal Welfare Board of India and National Commission on Cattle. He died on 22 March 2009, in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) after suffering from cancer for five years. People for Animals (PFA) Haryana Chairman Naresh Kadyan, representative of OIPA in India, announced a "Justice Guman Mal Lodha Memorial National Award" to the former Superintendent of Faridabad Police Srikant Jadhav, IPS.

References

External links

Guman Mal Lodha's obituary
20th-century Indian judges India MPs 1989–1991 India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 Lok Sabha members from Rajasthan Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Rajasthan Bharatiya Jana Sangh politicians People from Jodhpur 1926 births 2009 deaths Judges of the Gauhati High Court People from Pali district Rajasthan MLAs 1972–1977 {{Rajasthan-BJP-politician-stub