Supreme Court choose Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar died at a personal hospital in Gurgaon, sources mentioned on Sunday. He was 62.
Justice Shantanagoudar was admitted to the Medanta hospital resulting from a lung an infection and was within the ICU, the sources mentioned.
His situation was acknowledged to be steady until late Saturday night time however round 12.30 am, the docs 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 choose was affected by COVID-19.
Justice Shantanagoudar was elevated as a choose of the Supreme Court on February, 17, 2017.
He was born on May, 5, 1958 in Karnataka and bought himself enrolled as an advocate on September 5, 1980.
He was appointed as an extra choose of the Karnataka High Court on May 12, 2003 and have become a everlasting choose 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 grew to become the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court on September 22, 2016, earlier than being elevated as an apex court docket choose.