Ananda Prakash Sen

Sen came from a lawyers' family of Madhya Pradesh.^[1] He passed from Science College and Law College, Nagpur and started practice in the district court in June 1945. With the creation of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, he shifted to Jabalpur in 1956 and practised for 21 years in constitutional, civil and taxation matters. He became the advocate general of Madhya Pradesh on 1 June 1966 and remained as such till his elevation to bench.^[2]

On 7 November 1967 he was elevated as additional judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and became the permanent judge in July 1968. During the period of the Emergency he was transferred to the Rajasthan High Court on 29 June 1976.^[3] On 28 December 1977, appointed as acting chief justice of Rajasthan High Court^[1] due to retirement of the then chief justice Vedpal Tyagi and served as such till his elevation on 28 February 1978 as chief justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court.^[4]

Sen became the judge of the Supreme Court of India on 17 July 1978 and retired in September 1988 from his judgeship.^[5] Sen refused a farewell function at the time of his retirement, becoming the first Indian justice in the history of the Supreme Court to do so.^[6] Sen is deceased.^[7][8]