Manoj Kumar Mukherjee
Manoj Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian jurist. He served as the Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court and Allahabad High Court and former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was the head of Mukherjee Commission.Career
Mukherjee was born in 1933 in British India. He passed B.Sc. and LL.B thereafter started his lawyer career in Asansol Court, in the state of West Bengal in 1956. He worked in the Calcutta High Court as a criminal law expert since December 1962 and in 1977 he was appointed as a Judge of this Court. He was transferred to the Allahabad High Court on 12 November 1991 as the Chief Justice. In January 1993 Mukherjee became the Chief Justice Bombay High Court. He was also appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1993.
In 1999, after retirement, Mukherjee was appointed as the chairperson of Mukherjee Commission to inquire into the death of Subhas Chandra Bose. His name was recommended by the then Chief Justice of India.
