Sarat Kumar Ghosh

Justice Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh (1878 – 1962) was an ICS officer and an Indian jurist. He was the son of Rai Bahadur Tarini Kumar Ghosh, Inspector General of Registration of the Government of Bengal. He was married to Lady Nirajanalini Ghosh (nee Dé), the second daughter of Brajendranath Dé, Esq., I.C.S..

He was a student of Presidency College, Calcutta, and Trinity College, Cambridge, entering the ICS in 1903. He was the District Judge of Hooghly, appointed to the court there in 1929 and becoming a Puisne Judge by 1938, when he was knighted. He became the Chief Justice of the Indian Princely State of Jaipur and then the last Chief Justice of the Indian Princely State of Kashmir from 29th March 1946 to 29th March 1948. He was one of the last officials of the former regime in Kashmir to have left the state just before the first Indo-Pakistan war broke out in 1948. [http://www.jkhighcourt.nic.in/ Former Chief Justices and Judges of Jammu & Kashmir High Court] ] After India gained independence he became the first Indian Chief Justice of the Indian state of Rajasthan. He was also Chairman of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission. [http://www.rpsc.gov.in/Profile.htm Rajasthan Public Service Commission] ]

After retirement he was appointed as a Steward of the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, a position he retained until the end of his life. [http://www.rctconline.com/appendix4.1.htm Royal Calcutta Turf Club] ]

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* [http://www.rctconline.com/ Official Website of Royal Calcutta Turf Club]