A. N. Ray

Ajit Nath Ray (1912 to 2009) was the fourteenth Chief Justice of India, serving from April 1973 to January 1977. Educated at Presidency College in Calcutta and Oriel College, Oxford, he was called to the English bar in 1939 and served as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, where he was the lone dissenter in the 1969 bank nationalization case. His appointment as Chief Justice superseded three more senior judges and proved controversial, and his tenure is remembered for the ADM Jabalpur v. Shiv Kant Shukla ruling that fundamental rights could be suspended during a state of emergency, a decision later overturned. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Ajit Nath Ray lived from January 29, 1912 to December 25, 2009 and was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from April 25, 1973 until his retirement on January 28, 1977. He was the lone dissenter among the eleven Supreme Court judges who examined the constitutionality of the Bank Nationalization Act in 1969. He came to his appointment to the Supreme Court by way of Presidency College Calcutta, Oriel College Oxford, Gray's Inn, and the Calcutta High Court. His son, Justice Ajoy Nath Ray, became a Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.