New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar died aged 62 at a personal hospital in Gurgaon, the sources stated on Sunday (April 25, 2021).
Justice Shantanagoudar was admitted to the Medanta hospital attributable to a lung an infection and was within the ICU, the sources stated.
His situation was acknowledged to be steady until late Saturday night time however round 12.30 am, the medical doctors attending him broke the unhappy information to the household, a court docket official instructed PTI.
The sources didn’t affirm or deny whether or not the judge was affected by COVID-19.
Justice Shantanagoudar was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on February 17, 2017.
He was born on May 5, 1958, in Karnataka and received himself enrolled as an advocate on September 5, 1980.
He was appointed as an extra judge of the Karnataka High Court on May 12, 2003, and have become a everlasting judge within the court docket in September 2004.
Later, he was transferred to the Kerala High Court, the place he assumed cost because the Acting Chief Justice on August 1, 2016.
He turned the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court on September 22, 2016, earlier than being elevated as an apex court docket judge.
