{"id":136861,"date":"2017-06-16T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=136861"},"modified":"2017-06-16T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T09:29:11","slug":"former-cji-p-n-bhagwati-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2017\/06\/16\/former-cji-p-n-bhagwati-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CJI P.N. Bhagwati passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Chief Justice of India, Justice P.N. Bhagwati passed away today. He was 95. Appointed to the Supreme Court in July, 1973 he served as Chief Justice from July, 1985 to December, 1986. The seminal cases in which he delivered judgments were <em>E.P. Royappa<\/em>, (1974) 4 SCC 3,\u00a0<i>Naraindas Indurkhya<\/i>, (1974) 4 SCC 788,\u00a0<i>Maganlal Chhaganlal (P) Ltd.<\/i>, (1974) 2 SCC 402,\u00a0<i>S.P. 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