V. S. Sirpurkar

V. S. Sirpurkar (born August 22, 1946^[1]) is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was appointed Supreme Court judge on January 12, 2007 and retired on August 21, 2011, completing a four-and-a-half-year tenure.^[2]

Career

Sirpurkar became a Judge of Bombay High Court in 1992 and later transferred to the Madras High Court in December, 1997. He was elevated to Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court which he served from July 25, 2004 to March 19, 2005. He then assumed office of the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on from March 20, 2005 up to January 11, 2007. Finally he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme court of India on January 12, 2007 and retired on August 21, 2011, after reaching the retiring age of 65. After retiring from the Supreme Court of India, he is expected to take office as the Chairman of the Competition Appellate Tribunal from July, 2012, following the retirement of Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat from that position in May, 2012.

Notable judgements

His notable judgements include the confirmation of death sentence on Pakistani national Mohd. Arif alias Ashfaq in the 2000 Delhi Red Fort attack,^[3] part of a two judge bench with Justice T. S. Thakur. In December 2009, he reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment in a case of "honour killing" of a girl by her brother. In the hooch case in which he pulled up the Kerala government. He also ruled that the services provided by the office of Regional Provident Fund Commissioner would come under the ambit of "service" under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986 and that a PF scheme subscriber was a "consumer" under this act.

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