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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Judge of Supreme Court of India and politician (born 1926)}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Bankim Chandra Ray<br />
| office = [[Judge]] of [[Supreme Court of India]]<br />
| nominator = [[P.N. Bhagwati]]<br />
| appointer = [[Zail Singh]]<br />
| term_start = 29 October 1985<br />
| term_end = 31 October 1991<br />
| office1 = [[Judge]] of [[Calcutta High Court]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1926|11|01}}<br />
| term_start1 = 9 December 1976<br />
| term_end1 = 01 November 1988<br />
| nominator1 = [[A. N. Ray]]<br />
| appointer1 = [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]<br />
| honorific_prefix = Hon'ble Justice<br />
| birth_place = Kanthalberia, [[24 Parganas]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
| website = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Bankim Chandra Ray''' (born 1 November 1926) is a retired judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]] and politician.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Ray was born to Bhuson Chandra Ray into a rich [[Poundra (caste)|Poundra Kshatriya]] zamindar family at 24 Praganas, [[Bengal Presidency]], British India (now West Bengal, India). He did his schooling from Multi Peary Srimantha Institution at [[Magrahat]], in 1946 he completed his B.A from [[Ripon College, Calcutta|Ripon College]] (now Surendranath College), in 1951 completed his [[LL.B]] in from University Law College (now [[Department of Law, University of Calcutta]]) and M.A (Political Economy) from [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gadbois|first=George H. Jr.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=justice+bankim+chandra+ray&pg=PT283|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|date=2011-05-02|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-908838-6|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
In 1952 he got enrolled as a lawyer at [[Calcutta High Court]] and started his private practice. He got posted as Additional Judge of Calcutta High Court in June, 1976 and elevated to permanent judge in December, 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Supreme Court of India - Former Judges|url=http://164.100.107.37/judges/bio/57_bcray.htm|access-date=2020-10-07|website=164.100.107.37}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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Ray was nominated as judge at Supreme Court of India in 1985 and became the second [[Dalit]] judge to hold such position after [[Appajee Vardarajan|A. Vardarajan]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chandrachud|first=Abhinav|title=Former Supreme Court judges discuss the influence of caste in judicial appointments|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/law/supreme-court-judges-influence-caste-judicial-appointments-chandrachud-extract|access-date=2020-10-07|website=The Caravan|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Fayiz|first=C. Ahamed|title=Caste and Judiciary: Looking for Dalit and Adivasi Judges in Supreme Court of India|url=https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9623:caste-and-judiciary-looking-for-dalit-and-adivasi-judges-in-supreme-court-of-india&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132|access-date=2020-10-07|website=Round Table India|language=en-gb}}</ref> He was associated with [[Indian National Congress]] since his college days and contested the 1957 West Bengal legislative assembly election from [[Baruipur Paschim|Baruipur]] constituency but lost to Gangadhar Naskar of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=West Bengal Assembly Election Results in 1957|url=https://www.elections.in/west-bengal/assembly-constituencies/1957-election-results.html|access-date=2020-10-07|website=www.elections.in}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:1926 births]]<br />
[[Category:Possibly living people]]<br />
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Judges of the Calcutta High Court]]<br />
[[Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of India]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian politicians]]<br />
[[Category:People from South 24 Parganas district]]</div>Andreasujg