Wednesday 20 April 2016

20 APR 1989 (25 NOV 1924-17 NOV 2007) JUSTICE RAGHUNANDAN SWARUP  PATHAK APPOINTED IN WORLD COURT

Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

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R.S. Pathak
18th Chief Justice of India
In office
21 December 1986 – 18 June 1989
Nominated byCollegium of judges headed by CJI Y V Chandrachud
Appointed byPresident Giani Zail Singh
Preceded byP. N. Bhagwati
Succeeded byE.S. Venkataramiah
Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
Preceded byPrakash Chandra Tatia
D. N. Patel (acting)
Personal details
Born25 November 1924
Died17 November 2007
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak, (R. S. Pathak) (25 November 1924 – 17 November 2007) was the 18th Chief Justice of India. He was the son of Gopal Swarup Pathak, a former Vice President of India.[1]
He was one of the two judges from India to have been on the International Court of Justice in The Hague (the other being Nagendra Singh who served as its President from 1985 to 1988).[2] He had studied law at Allahabad University. After practising law at Allahabad, he became Judge at Allahabad High Court in 1962 and later Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court in 1972.[3]

At the Supreme Court of India[edit]

Pathak was made a judge at Supreme Court of India in 1978 and became its 18th Chief Justice on 21 December 1986. He is remembered as a judge who was a man of the middle and was able to bring relative peace to the Court. He served as Chief justice for two and a half years during which time a dozen judges were appointed to the Court. Five of them — Madhukar Hiralal Kania, Lalit Mohan Sharma, Manepalle Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah, Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi, and Jagdish Sharan Verma— went on to serve as Chief Justices between 1991 and 1998.[4]

Bhopal gas disaster[edit]

Pathak facilitated an out of court settlement[5] between Union Carbide Corporation and the Government of India in 1989 regarding the compensation to be paid for the Bhopal gas tragedy. The government had sought $3.3 billion but received only $470 million and the settlement resulted in the dropping of criminal liability charges against Carbide in the case. Within three months of his retirement Pathak became a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague.[6][7] The Supreme Court in 1991 upheld the settlement in 1991 thus ending Carbide's liability in the case.[8]

Judge of the International Court of Justice[edit]

Pathak was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice and served in that position from 1989 to 1991. He was elected in "casual election" that was held following the death of M. Nagendra Singh, an Indian judge who was then serving his second term at the International Court. In 1991 India decided not to renominate Pathak, who however entered the fray with the backing of Ireland. After the Irish government came under attack in the Dail from MPs who blamed Pathak for approving, as Chief Justice of India, the $470-millionBhopal gas disaster settlement with Union Carbide, Pathak withdrew from the race.[9]

Oil-for-Food Programme inquiry[edit]

Main article: Oil-for-Food Programme
In November 2005, Justice Pathak was appointed to inquire into alleged Indian links in the Oil-for-Food Programme. On 3 August 2006, he submitted his 90-page report which indicted suspended Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh.[10]

Death[edit]

R. S. Pathak died on 17 November 2007, at the age of 82 following a heart attack.[11]
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