Vashishtha Bhargava, I.C.S. (5 February 1906 – unknown) was an Indian judge and Justice of the

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Career

Bhargava was born in 1906 in

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. He passed M.Sc. from the

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in 1925. He qualified for Indian Civil Service and became the Joint Magistrate in 1930 and Civil and Sessions Judge in 1936. Bhargava was appointed Additional Commissioner for Food and Civil Supplies under the

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in 1947. He also served as Legal Remembrancer and Judicial Secretary. He first became the Puisne Judge of the

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in February 1949. He was one of the in charge of the Executive and Administrative business of the Court. In 1966 he was elevated in the post of the Chief Justice of the same High Court. Justice Bhargava, was the last of the

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judges, became the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court. Bhargava became the judge of the Supreme Court of India on 8 August 1966. He retired in February 1971 from the post. He headed the Bhargava Committee to look into the budgetary surplus of

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region at the time of

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References

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