Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 22 August 1946) is a retired judge of the

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. He was appointed Supreme Court judge on 12 January 2007 and retired on 21 August 2011, completing a four-and-a-half-year tenure.

Career

Sirpurkar became a Judge of

Bombay High Court The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the ol ...

in 1992 and later transferred to the

Madras High Court The Madras High Court is a High Court in India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is located in Chennai, and is the third oldest high court of India after the Calcutta High C ...

in December, 1997. He was elevated to Chief Justice of

Uttarakhand High Court The Uttarakhand High Court is the High Court of the state of Uttarakhand in India. The building of Uttarakhand High Court was constructed by Santoni MacDonald in 1900. The Uttarakhand State was carved out from the State of Uttar Pradesh on ...

which he served from 25 July 2004 to 19 March 2005. He then assumed office of the Chief Justice of the

Calcutta High Court The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It is located in B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata, West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The High Court buildi ...

from 20 March 2005 up to 11 January 2007. Finally he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme court of India on 12 January 2007 and retired on 21 August 2011, after reaching the retiring age of 65. After retiring from the Supreme Court of India, he is expected to take office as the Chairman of the Competition Appellate Tribunal from July, 2012, following the retirement of Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat from that position in May, 2012.

Notable judgements

His notable judgements include the confirmation of death sentence on Pakistani national Mohammed Arif alias Ashfaq in the 2000 Delhi

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attack, part of a two judge bench with Justice

T. S. Thakur Tirath Singh Thakur (born 4 January 1952) is an Indian jurist who served as the 43rd Chief Justice of India (CJI) from 3 December 2015 to 4 January 2017. Before being elevated to the Supreme Court, he served as the Chief Justice of Punjab an ...

. In December 2009, he reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment in a case of "honour killing" of a girl by her brother. In the hooch case in which he pulled up the Kerala government. He also ruled that the services provided by the office of Regional Provident Fund Commissioner would come under the ambit of "service" under the

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and that a PF scheme subscriber was a "consumer" under this act.

References

1946 births Living people Justices of the Supreme Court of India Chief Justices of the Calcutta High Court Judges of the Bombay High Court Judges of the Madras High Court Chief Justices of the Uttarakhand High Court 20th-century Indian judges {{India-law-bio-stub