Altamas Kabir served as the thirty ninth Chief Justice of India, from September 2012 to July 2013, coming from a prominent Bengali Muslim family. Born in Calcutta in 1948, he earned his law degree from the University of Calcutta and was admitted to the bar in 1973, rising through the Calcutta High Court and the Chief Justiceship of the Jharkhand High Court before joining the Supreme Court. Over his Supreme Court career he authored three hundred sixty two judgments across six hundred ninety eight benches, delivering notable rulings on human rights, domestic violence and election law. He died in 2017. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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What notable rulings did Altamas Kabir deliver as a Supreme Court judge?
A 2011 Domestic Violence Act ruling and a 2012 order to end the Haj subsidy by 2022.
Wikipedia singles out his judgments on human rights and election law. In a 2011 case from Amravati district, a bench of Justices Kabir and Cyriac Joseph ruled that female relatives of a husband can also be booked under the Domestic Violence Act. On 8 May 2012, a bench of Altamas Kabir and Ranjana Desai ordered the government to end the Haj subsidy by 2022.
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Altamas Kabir (19 July 1948 - 19 February 2017) was an Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 39th Chief Justice of India.
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2017) was an Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 39th Chief Justice of India.
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Wikidata Q1766088, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1948
Wikidata Q1766088, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1948-07-19
Wikidata Q1766088, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 2017
Wikidata Q1766088, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 2017-02-19
Wikidata Q1766088, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Kolkata
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P20 (place of death): Kolkata
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