Phani Bhusan Chakravartti

{{Short description|Indian judge}}

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{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name =Phani Bhushan Chakravartti

|birth_name =

|occupation =

|birth_date =1898

|death_date ={{death date and age|1981|5|8|1898}}

| office = Governor of West Bengal
{{small|(acting)}}

| term_start = 8 August 1956

| term_end = 3 November 1956

| predecessor =Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

| successor = Padmaja Naidu

| office2 = Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court

| term_start2 = 1952

| term_end2 = 1958

| predecessor2 = Arthur Trevor Harries

| successor2 = Kulada Charan Das Gupta

}}

Phani Bhushan Chakravartti (1898 – 8 May 1981) was the first Indian cum Bengali permanent Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court and was the acting governor of West Bengal.{{Cite web|url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/former_cj.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215131337/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/former_cj.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 December 2013|title=Former Chief Justices|website=calcuttahighcourt.nic.in|access-date=23 December 2017}} {{Cite web|url=http://olkolkata.in/details/|title=Office of the Official Liquidator|website=olkolkata.in|access-date=23 December 2017}}

Career

Chakravartti was born in British India in Dhaka. Before joining the Calcutta High Court, he worked as a professor of English at Jagannath College and Ripon College, Calcutta (1920–1926). In 1945 he was elevated as a judge of the Calcutta High Court. Chakravartti became the Chief Justice of the court in 1952 after Sir Arthur Trevor Harries.{{Cite web|url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/pdf_files/former_chief_justice.pdf|title=FORMER CHIEF JUSTICES|access-date=23 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822044941/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/pdf_files/former_chief_justice.pdf|archive-date=22 August 2013|url-status=dead}} After the sudden demise of Dr. Harendra Coomar Mookerjee in 1956, he also took charge as acting Governor of West Bengal for a few months. Chakravartti retired from the judgeship in 1958.{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh Chandra Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=322}}

Writings

Chakravartti wrote a book named Morning Blossoms.

References