Nalini_Ranjan_Chatterjee

Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee

Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee

Indian judge

Sir Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee[1] (died 6 September 1942[2]) was a judge of the Calcutta High Court, India from 1910 to 1926 and officiated as Chief Justice on three occasions.[3] He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours.[4] He became a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council post retirement.[5]

Front Row, Centre - Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, Sir Lancelot Sanderson (Chief Justice), Sir Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee

It was said of Chatterjee by then Chief Justice Rankin that not a single judgment of the former was set aside by the Privy Council.[5]

Chatterjee's residence in Nabogram, 30 km before Santiniketan en route from Calcutta.

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Also spelt Chatterji.
  2. [2]
    Biography, Who Was Who
  3. [3]
    "Name of the Chief Justices & Judges of the High Court at Calcutta" (PDF). p. 134.
  4. [4]
    "No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 3.
  5. [5]
    "Nalini Ranjan's Portrait Unveiled". Statesman. 24 December 2001.


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