P. Sathasivam

Palanisamy Sathasivam (born 27 April 1949) is an Indian judge who served as the 40th Chief Justice of India, holding the office from 2013 to 2014.During his tenure as chief justice, he was the chairman of the General Council of the Gujarat National Law University.[12] He also delivered the verdict in the triple-murder case of Graham Staines and commuted the death sentence of Dara Singh to life imprisonment in a controversial judgment.[14] Along with Justice B. S. Chauhan, Sathasivam delivered the judgement in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, sentencing Hindi cinema actor Sanjay Dutt to five years' imprisonment under the Arms Act.[15][16] Supreme Court of India ruled that delays ranging from seven to 11 years in the disposal of mercy pleas are grounds for clemency.
President Pranab Mukherjee greets the Chief Justice of India, Justice Sathasivam, after administering the oath of office to him, at a swearing-in ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 19 July 2013.
Indian namepatronymicgiven nameGovernor of KeralaOommen ChandyPinarayi VijayanSheila DikshitArif Mohammad KhanChief Justice of IndiaPranab MukherjeeAltamas KabirRajendra Mal LodhaBhavaniTamil NaduAlma materUniversity of MadrasMadurai Kamaraj UniversityM. Patanjali SastriNarendra ModiErode districtGovernment Law College, ChennaiAyya Nadar Janaki Ammal CollegeSivakasivitiligoMadras High CourtPunjab and Haryana High CourtGujarat National Law UniversityGraham StainesDara SinghJessica Lal murder case1993 Mumbai blasts caseHindi cinemaSanjay DuttThe HinduSupreme Court of IndiaOutlookThe Times of IndiaChief justices of IndiaH. J. KaniaMehr Chand MahajanBijan Kumar MukherjeaSudhi Ranjan DasBhuvaneshwar Prasad SinhaP. B. GajendragadkarAmal Kumar SarkarKoka Subba RaoKailas Nath WanchooMohammad HidayatullahJayantilal Chhotalal ShahSarv Mittra SikriA. N. RayMirza Hameedullah BegY. V. ChandrachudP. N. BhagwatiRaghunandan Swarup PathakE. S. VenkataramiahSabyasachi MukharjiRanganath MisraKamal Narain SinghMadhukar Hiralal KaniaLalit Mohan SharmaM. N. VenkatachaliahAziz Mushabber AhmadiJ. S. VermaMadan Mohan PunchhiAdarsh Sein AnandSam Piroj BharuchaBhupinder Nath KirpalGopal Ballav PattanaikV. N. KhareS. Rajendra BabuRamesh Chandra LahotiYogesh Kumar SabharwalK. G. BalakrishnanS. H. KapadiaH. L. DattuT. S. ThakurJagdish Singh KheharDipak MisraRanjan GogoiSharad BobdeN. V. RamanaUday Umesh LalitDhananjaya Y. ChandrachudSanjiv Khanna