Rana Bhagwandas (20 December 1942 to 23 February 2015) was a Pakistani jurist who served as a judge and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, becoming the first Hindu and second non-Muslim to hold the office. He acted as Chief Justice during the 2007 judicial crisis, from 24 March to 20 July 2007, and briefly on two earlier occasions when the sitting Chief Justice was abroad, in 2005 and for the December 2006 hajj pilgrimage. He later chaired Pakistan's Federal Public Service Commission from 2009 to 2012 and was posthumously awarded the Nishan-i-Imtiaz in 2023.
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Rana Bhagwandas was a Pakistani jurist who served as a judge and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP). He enjoyed extremely high reputation as a judge. He remained the acting CJP during the 2007 judicial crisis in Pakistan, and also briefly became the acting Chief Justice of Pakistan when the incumbent Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry went on foreign tours in 2005 and 2006, and thus became the first Hindu and the second non-Muslim to serve as chief of the highest court in Pakistan. Rana Bhagwandas also worked as the Chairman of Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan. He headed the interview panel for the selection of the federal civil servants in 2009.
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