New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India Ramesh Chandra Lahoti passed away last evening. He was a judge of the Supreme Court from September 12, 1998 to October 31, 2005. He was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on 1 June 2004. He retired on November 1, 2005.

Justice Lahoti was born on 1 November 1940, and joined the Bar in District Guna in 1960 and enrolled as an advocate in 1962. In April, 1977, he was directly recruited from the Bar to the State Higher Judicial Service. After serving as a District and Sessions Judge for a year, he resigned in May 1978 and returned to the bar mainly to practice in the High Court.

He was appointed an additional judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on May 3, 1988, and was made a permanent judge on August 4, 1989. On February 7, 1994, he was transferred to the Delhi High Court.

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