Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale

Hon'ble Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
Judicial Member of Lokpal
In office 23 March 2019 – 12 January 2020
Appointed by	Ram Nath Kovind
Preceded by	Position Established
46th Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
In office 30 July 2016 – 23 October 2018
Nominated by	T. S. Thakur
Appointed by	Pranab Mukherjee
Preceded by	D. Y. Chandrachud
Succeeded by	Govind Mathur
Judge of Hyderabad High Court
In office 8 December 2014 – 29 July 2016
Nominated by	H. L. Dattu
Appointed by	Pranab Mukherjee
Judge of Karnataka High Court
In office 6 January 2012 – 7 December 2014
Nominated by	S. H. Kapadia
Appointed by	Pratibha Patil
Judge of Bombay High Court
In office 22 January 2001 – 5 January 2012
Nominated by	Adarsh Sein Anand
Appointed by	K. R. Narayanan
Personal details
Born	(1956-10-24) 24 October 1956 (age 68) Bombay, Bombay State, India
Spouse	Arundhati ​ (m. 1982)​
Children	2
Parent	Babasaheb Bhosale (father)
Alma mater	Government Law College, Mumbai[1]

Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale (born 24 October 1956) is the ex-Judicial Member of Lokpal Committee. He is the former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court and as a Judge of Hyderabad High Court, Karnataka High Court and Bombay High Court.[2]

Background

Bhosale hails from Satara district of Maharashtra.[3] He comes from a prominent family. His father Babasaheb Bhosale was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1982 to 83 while his uncle Shivajirao was the Vice-Chancellor of Marathwada University situated at Aurangabad. Justice Bhosale studied law at Government Law College, Mumbai.[4]

Career

He joined the Bar in June 1980 when he began practice at the High Court of Bombay. Bhosale was an Assistant Government Pleader and Assistant Public Prosecutor at the court from 1986 to 1991. He was appointed an Additional Judge at the Bombay High Court in January 2001 and promoted to be a Permanent Judge two years later. Beginning 2012, Bhosale was made a sitting Judge at the High Court of Karnataka.[3][5] On 30 July 2016, he was promoted to Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.
On 23 October 2018, he retired from High Court.

Notable judgements

• A division bench consisting of Bhosale and Justice Yashwant Varma ruled that the Election Commission of India has powers to remove duplicate and fake names from the electoral rolls till the last date of filing the nominations.[6]

References

1. "Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale (CJ)". www.allahabadhighcourt.in. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
2. "Lokpal: Meet the men and women who will probe corruption". qrius.com. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
3. "Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale". www.supremecourtcaselaw.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
4. "The Hon'ble The Acting Chief Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale". hc.tap.nic.in. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
5. "Former Hon'ble Judges of High Court of Karnataka elevated as Chief Justice of other High Courts". karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in. 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
6. "Allahabad high court: Voter list can be corrected till last date of filing nomination". The Times of India. 14 January 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.