Repusudan Dayal

Dayal joined in the Uttar Pradesh Judicial Service on 22 February 1966. In 1975, he became the additional Judge of Small Cause Court, New Delhi. He was appointed Additional and District Sessions Judge in 1979.

He was the judge, then serving as Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, before whom Indira Gandhi was produced after being arrested on 3 October 1977. He outrightly held that no case was made out against her and directed that she be set free.^[3]

Initially he was proposed to be appointed as Judge in Orissa High Court, the then chief justice of Orissa also endorsed this proposal but this proposal was dropped due to strong opposition by Orissa High Court Bar Association.^[3] Later on 10 May 1984, Dayal became a Judge of the Sikkim High Court, he also served as acting chief justice there twice, thereafter transferred to Allahabad High Court on 18 October 1995.^[4] He also served as the Judge of the Calcutta High Court in 1997.^[5]

On 3 February 1999, Justice Dayal was elevated to the post of the Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court and served there until 17 May 2003. He was appointed Chairman of Sikkim State Law Commission and Sikkim State Human Rights Commission after retirement.^[6] He also became the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta.^[7][8]