Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
{{Short description|Judicial Member of Lokpal Committee}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
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| office = Judicial Member of Lokpal
| term_start = 23 March 2019
| term_end = 12 January 2020
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| appointer = Ram Nath Kovind
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| office1 = 46th Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
| term_start1 = 30 July 2016
| term_end1 = 23 October 2018
| nominator1 = T. S. Thakur
| appointer1 = Pranab Mukherjee
| predecessor1 = D. Y. Chandrachud
| successor1 = Govind Mathur
| office2 = Judge of Hyderabad High Court
| term_start2 = 8 December 2014
| term_end2 = 29 July 2016
| nominator2 = H. L. Dattu
| appointer2 = Pranab Mukherjee
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| office3 = Judge of Karnataka High Court
| term_start3 = 6 January 2012
| term_end3 = 7 December 2014
| nominator3 = S. H. Kapadia
| appointer3 = Pratibha Patil
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| office4 = Judge of Bombay High Court
| term_start4 = 22 January 2001
| term_end4 = 5 January 2012
| nominator4 = Adarsh Sein Anand
| appointer4 = K. R. Narayanan
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1956|10|24}}
| birth_place = Bombay, Bombay State, India
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|children = 2
|alma_mater = Government Law College, Mumbai{{Cite web |url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/service/judgeDetail.jsp?id=239 |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale (CJ) |website=www.allahabadhighcourt.in |access-date=2017-11-29}}
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Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale (born 24 October 1956) is the ex-Judicial Member of Lokpal Committee. He is the former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court and as a Judge of Hyderabad High Court, Karnataka High Court and Bombay High Court.{{Cite web|url=https://qrius.com/lokpal-meet-the-men-and-women-who-will-probe-corruption/|title=Lokpal: Meet the men and women who will probe corruption|website=qrius.com|date=21 March 2019 |access-date=2019-03-29}}
Background
Bhosale hails from Satara district of Maharashtra.{{Cite web |url=http://www.supremecourtcaselaw.com/jus_dbbhosale.htm |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale |website=www.supremecourtcaselaw.com |access-date=2017-11-29 |archive-date=4 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161004182919/http://www.supremecourtcaselaw.com/jus_dbbhosale.htm |url-status=usurped }} He comes from a prominent family. His father Babasaheb Bhosale was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1982 to 83 while his uncle Shivajirao was the Vice-Chancellor of Marathwada University situated at Aurangabad. Justice Bhosale studied law at Government Law College, Mumbai.{{Cite web |url=http://hc.tap.nic.in/aphc/dbbj.html |title=The Hon'ble The Acting Chief Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale |website=hc.tap.nic.in |access-date=2017-11-29}}
Career
He joined the Bar in June 1980 when he began practice at the High Court of Bombay. Bhosale was an Assistant Government Pleader and Assistant Public Prosecutor at the court from 1986 to 1991. He was appointed an Additional Judge at the Bombay High Court in January 2001 and promoted to be a Permanent Judge two years later. Beginning 2012, Bhosale was made a sitting Judge at the High Court of Karnataka.{{Cite web |url=http://karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in/profiles-elevated-as-cj.asp# |title=Former Hon'ble Judges of High Court of Karnataka elevated as Chief Justice of other High Courts |date=2014 |website=karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in |access-date=2017-12-02}}
On 30 July 2016, he was promoted to Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.
On 23 October 2018, he retired from High Court.
Notable judgements
- A division bench consisting of Bhosale and Justice Yashwant Varma ruled that the Election Commission of India has powers to remove duplicate and fake names from the electoral rolls till the last date of filing the nominations.{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/hc-voter-list-can-be-corrected-till-last-date-of-filing-nomination/articleshow/56530897.cms |title=Allahabad high court: Voter list can be corrected till last date of filing nomination |date=2017-01-14 |work=The Times of India |access-date=2017-12-04}}
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Category:21st-century Indian judges
Category:Chief justices of the Allahabad High Court
Category:Judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court
Category:Judges of the Karnataka High Court
Category:Judges of the Bombay High Court