Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee

Sir Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee[1] (died 6 September 1942[2]) was a judge of the Calcutta High Court, India from 1910 to 1926 and officiated as Chief Justice on three occasions.[3] He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours.[4] He became a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council post retirement.[5]

Front Row, Centre - Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, Sir Lancelot Sanderson (Chief Justice), Sir Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee

It was said of Chatterjee by then Chief Justice Rankin that not a single judgment of the former was set aside by the Privy Council.[5]

Chatterjee's residence in Nabogram, 30 km before Santiniketan en route from Calcutta.

Footnotes
  1. Also spelt Chatterji.
  2. Biography, Who Was Who
  3. "Name of the Chief Justices & Judges of the High Court at Calcutta" (PDF). p. 134.
  4. "No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 3.
  5. "Nalini Ranjan's Portrait Unveiled". Statesman. 24 December 2001.


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