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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Former Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Md.Yaqoob Mir<br />
| honorific_prefix = [[Honourable]] [[Chief Justice]] (Retd.)<br />
| office = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Meghalaya High Court|6th Chief Justice]] of [[Meghalaya High Court]]<br />
| term_start = 21 May 2018<br />
| term_end = 27 May 2019<br />
| nominator = [[Dipak Misra]]<br />
| appointer = [[Ram Nath Kovind]]<br />
| predecessor = {{ubl|[[Tarun Agarwala]]|Sudip Ranjan Sen ''(acting)''}}<br />
| successor = [[Ajay Kumar Mittal]]<br />
| office1 = Judge of [[Jammu and Kashmir High Court]]<br />
| term_start1 = 23 November 2007<br />
| term_end1 = 20 May 2018<br />
| appointer1 = [[Pratibha Patil]]<br />
| nominator1 = [[K. G. Balakrishnan]]<br />
| status2 = [[acting (law)|Acting]] [[Chief Justice]]<br />
| term_start2 = 5 January 2015<br />
| term_end2 = 2 February 2015<br />
| appointer2 = [[Pranab Mukherjee]]<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Mahesh Mittal Kumar|M. M. Kumar]]<br />
| successor2 = [[N. Paul Vasanthakumar]]<br />
| birth_date = 28 May 1957<br />
| birth_place = [[Rajpora]], [[Pulwama]], [[Kashmir]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Kashmir University]]<br />
| education = [[LL.B]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Mohammad Yaqoob Mir''' (born 28 May 1957) is an Indian judge and former [[Chief Justice]] of [[Meghalaya High Court]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
Mir was born in 1957 at [[Rajpora]], [[Pulwama]], [[Kashmir]]. He passed [[LL.B]]. from [[Kashmir University]] and practiced as an Advocate since 1981 to 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://barandbench.com/mohammad-yaqoob-mir-chief-justice-meghalaya-hc/|title=Govt notifies appointment of Mohammad Yaqoob Mir as Chief Justice of Meghalaya HC|date=10 May 2018 |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref> Mir qualified for Higher Judicial Services and was appointed District and Sessions Judge on 27 May 1993. He also served as Special Judge, Anti-Corruption in the State of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]. He became the Registrar General of the [[Jammu and Kashmir High Court|High Court of Jammu and Kashmir]]. Mir attended International Conference on Arbitration (ICCA). He was appointed additional judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in November 2007 and confirmed on 1 October 2009 as permanent judge of the same High Court. Justice Mir took charge as the Acting Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court from 5 January 2015 to 2 February 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jkhighcourt.nic.in/formerJudges.php|title=Hon'ble Former Judges of High Court J & K|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref> On 21 May 2018, he was appointed Chief Justice of [[Meghalaya High Court]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://meghalayahighcourt.nic.in/chief-justice-judges|title=Chief Justice & Judges|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jk-hc-judge-mohammad-yaqoob-mir-is-new-chief-justice-of-meghalaya-high-court-5172140/|title=J&K HC judge Mohammad Yaqoob Mir is new Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court|last=Sheriff M|first=Kaunain|date=11 May 2018|newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref><br />
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