Saiyed Saghir Ahmad (1 July 1935 - 31 January 2011) was a judge of the

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Early life

Justice Saghir had his early education in Christian College Lucknow. After passing the Intermediate examination, he went to Aligarh and obtained his BSc from

Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University (abbreviated as AMU) is a Public University, public Central University (India), central university in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Orie ...

. He returned to

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to follow in his father’s foot-steps and joined the legal profession after obtaining a law degree from the

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Career

He enrolled as an Advocate of the

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on 6 December 1961. He practiced civil law before the Lucknow Bench. He became Standing Counsel of the

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in 1976 and of the Northern Railway in 1971. He was appointed Additional Judge of Allahabad High Court on 2 November 1981 and permanent Judge on 30 December 1982. He was transferred to the Jammu & Kashmir High Court on 1 November 1993. He was appointed the Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court on 18 March 1994. He was transferred as Chief Justice of

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on 23 September 1994. He was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 6 March 1995 and retired on 30 June 2000.

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