Anandamoy Bhattacharjee

He was born on 20 December 1933 and was educated at the Siliguri Boys High School in Siliguri, the St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College, the Scottish Church College both in Kolkata and at Department of Law, University of Calcutta.^[1][3][4]

He enrolled as an advocate of the Calcutta High Court on 7 January 1957. His work as a lawyer centered on civil and criminal matters in the district courts of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri and at Gangtok (in Sikkim). He had also worked as legal adviser to the Government of Sikkim from May 1972.^[4] He also served as Advocate of General of Sikkim from June 1975.^[2]

He was appointed a judge in the Sikkim High Court in June 1976, and was appointed acting chief justice there twice in March 1983 and in January 1985. He was transferred as judge to the Calcutta High Court in February 1986, and was the acting chief justice there from June 1992. He served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court from January 1993 to 1994, and was subsequently transferred as the chief justice of the Bombay High Court in April 1994 where he stayed in office until April 1995 when he was forced to resign by Bombay Bar headed by Iqbal Chagla on corruption charges.^[5][6]

After his retirement, he served as a visiting faculty at the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.