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Pradip Kumar Mohanty

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'''Pradip Kumar Mohanty''' (born: 10 June 1955) is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.

==Early life and family==
Mohanty was born in 1955 at [[Cuttack]] in a Lawyers family. His father, Late Jugal Kishore Mohanty was the Chief Justice of [[Sikkim High Court]] and maternal grandfather, Late Rajkishore Das was also a Judge of [[Orissa High Court]]. Mohanty studied in the [[Ravenshaw Collegiate School]] of Cuttack and graduated from the [[Ravenshaw College]] in 1974. He passed Law from Madhusudan Law College of Cuttack.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

==Career==
Mohanty started practice in the Constitutional, Criminal and Civil matters in the Orissa High Court. He was elected as the Secretary of the Orissa High Court Bar Association. He appeared on behalf of various Municipalities and also became the Additional Government Advocate in the High Court. Mohanty was the Special Public Prosecutor in [[Graham Staines]] murder case. On 7 March 2002 he was appointed as an Additional Judge of Orissa High Court and thereafter became the Permanent Judge in 2004. He also took charge of Acting Chief Justice of Orissa High Court several times. Justice Mohanty was nominated as Chairman of NSA Advisory Board constituted under [[National Security Act (India)|National Security Act]], 1980. On 7 October 2016 he was transferred to the [[Jharkhand High Court]] as Acting Chief Justice. On 24 March 2017 he became the Permanent Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> <ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>Justice Mohanty was retired on 9 June 2017 from the post.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

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[[Category:1955 births]]
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[[Category:Judges of the Orissa High Court]]
[[Category:Chief Justices of the Jharkhand High Court]]
[[Category:Ravenshaw University alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian judges]]


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