Kailas Nath Wanchoo (25 February 1903 – 14 August 1988) was the tenth Chief Justice of India. He was born in Allahabad into a Kashmiri Pandit family and was educated on primary at Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh and middle at Pandit Pirthi Nath High School, Kanpur, Muir Central College, Allahabad and Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Civil Service as Joint Magistrate on 1 December 1926 in Uttar Pradesh.

Career

In April 1967, he was sworn in as a Chief Justice of India following the retirement of Koka Subba Rao from the position on announcing his presidential campaign. Over the course of his Supreme Court tenure, Wanchoo authored 355 judgments and sat on 1,286 benches.

Official positions