Justice mohammad hidayatullah biography
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Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah
by P.D. Desai, Chief Justice, High Court, Bombay
Cite as : (1992) 4 SCC (Jour) 10
Mr. Government Pleader, Mr. President of the Bombay dryckesställe Association, Mr. President of the Western India Advocates' Association, Mr. President of the Bombay Incorporated lag Society and Members of the Bar:
We are assembled here to man reference to the sad demise of Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah, a former Vice President and Chief Justice of India, in the early hours of the 18th of this month.
It fryst vatten difficult to encompass in a few words the variegated and distinguished career of the eminent jurist, scholar, educationist, author and linguist. His life span of fyra score and seven years symbolised significant achievement at each important stage, bringing honour and glory not only to himself but also to the institutions which he served and to our country.
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Mohammad Hidayatullah
Vice President of India from 1979 to 1984
Mohammad Hidayatullah (pronunciationⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 18 September 1992) was the chief justice of India serving from 25 February 1968 to 16 December 1970, and the vice president of India, serving from 31 August 1979 to 30 August 1984. He had also served as the acting president of India from 20 July 1969 to 24 August 1969 and from 6 October 1982 to 31 October 1982 and from 25 July 1983 to 25 July 1983 and from 25 July 1984 to 25 July 1984.[1] He is regarded as an eminent jurist, scholar, educationist, author and linguist.[2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Hidayatullah was born in 1905 in the well-known family of Khan Bahadur Hafiz Mohammed Wilayatullah. His grand father Munshi Kudartullah was advocate in Varanasi.[4][5] His father was a poet of all-India repute who wrote poems in Urdu and probably it must have been from him that Justice Hidayatullah got
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Born in Betul (Madhya Pradesh) on December 17th, 1905, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah was the 11th Chief Justice of India. A man of many firsts in India’s legal history, Hidayatullah J bears the unique distinction of being the only Indian citizen in independent India to have held the positions of Chief Justice of India, Vice President of India, and acting President of India.
The son of prominent Urdu poet, government officer, and politician Khan Bahadur Hafiz Mohammad Wilayatullah, Hidayatullah J grew up in an affluent, educated family. A Phillips scholar, he pursued a B.A. in English, History, and Persian from Nagpur’s Morris College, for which he was awarded the Malak gold medal for academic excellence upon graduating in 1926.
At the behest of his father, between 1927 to 1930, he went on to pursue a B.A. in English, English Literature, and Law, as well as an M.A, from Trinity College at Cambridge University. A gold medalist at Cambridge, he was later called to the Bar at Lincol