He completed his matriculation from a Government High School, Hamirpur, pursued BA, and then LLB, and studied at Ewing Christian College, Allahabad, and the University of Lucknow. He was enrolled as a pleader in 1937, and as an advocate in October 1943. He had a substantial civil practice.
Justice S N Dwivedi worked as junior standing council from November 1954 to December 1955. He served at the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (Allahabad High Court) from May 2, 1959, to August 14 1972.
He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on 14 August 1972 and served until 8 December 1974.[2][3] He died of cancer while in office in 1974.[4]
His son Rakesh Dwivedi, practices as a senior lawyer for the Supreme Court of India[5] and his granddaughter, Divya Dwivedi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[6]
