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	'''Raghunandan Swarup Pathak''' (25 November 1924 – 17 November 2007) was the 18th [[Chief Justice of India]]. He was the son of [[Gopal Swarup Pathak]], a former [[Vice President of India]].<ref>{{cite news\|title=Former CJI Pathak dead\|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/former-cji-pathak-dead/240748\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=The Indian Express\|date=19 November 2007}}</ref>		'''Raghunandan Swarup Pathak''' (25 November 1924 – 17 November 2007) was the 18th [[Chief Justice of India]]. He was the son of [[Gopal Swarup Pathak]], a former [[Vice President of India]].<ref>{{cite news\|title=Former CJI Pathak dead\|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/former-cji-pathak-dead/240748\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=The Indian Express\|date=19 November 2007}}</ref>

	He was one of the ~~three~~ judges from India to have been on the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]] (the others being [[Benegal Narsing Rau]] who served at ICJ during 1952 to 1953 [[Nagendra Singh]] who served as its President from 1985 to 1988 and former Supreme Court justice Dalveer Bhandari, who currently sits upon the World Court).<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE123BF930A25751C1A96E948260 Nagendra Singh, Judge At the World Court, 74] ''[[New York Times]]'', 13 December 1988.</ref>		He was one of the four judges from India to have been on the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]] (the others being [[Benegal Narsing Rau]] who served at ICJ during 1952 to 1953 [[Nagendra Singh]] who served as its President from 1985 to 1988 and former Supreme Court justice Dalveer Bhandari, who currently sits upon the World Court).<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE123BF930A25751C1A96E948260 Nagendra Singh, Judge At the World Court, 74] ''[[New York Times]]'', 13 December 1988.</ref>
	He did his schooling from [[St. Joseph's College, Allahabad]] and had studied law at Allahabad University. After practising law at Allahabad, he became Judge at [[Allahabad High Court]] in 1962 and later Chief Justice of [[Himachal Pradesh High Court]] in 1972.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/rcji/18rspathak.htm \|title=Former Hon'ble Chief Justices' of India \|accessdate=21 February 2012}}</ref>		He did his schooling from [[St. Joseph's College, Allahabad]] and had studied law at Allahabad University. After practising law at Allahabad, he became Judge at [[Allahabad High Court]] in 1962 and later Chief Justice of [[Himachal Pradesh High Court]] in 1972.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/rcji/18rspathak.htm \|title=Former Hon'ble Chief Justices' of India \|accessdate=21 February 2012}}</ref>

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	== Bhopal gas disaster ==		== Bhopal gas disaster ==
	Pathak facilitated an out of court settlement<ref>{{cite news\|title=For A Few Pieces Of Silver\|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=Ne260610coverstory.asp\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=Tehelka\|date=26 June 2010}}</ref> between [[Union Carbide Corporation]] and the [[Government of India]] in 1989 regarding the compensation to be paid for the [[Bhopal gas tragedy]]. The government had sought $3.3 billion but received only $470 million and the settlement resulted in the dropping of [[criminal liability]] charges against Carbide in the case. Within three months of his retirement Pathak became a member of the International Court of Justice at [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite news\|title=Spotlight on judges who ruled in favour of Union Carbide\|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_spotlight-on-judges-who-ruled-in-favour-of-union-carbide_1394222\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=DNA\|date=10 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last=Keswani\|first=Raajkumar\|title=Bhopal verdict: Worst legal disaster of recent history\|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100609/main5.htm\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=The Tribune\|date=9 June 2010}}</ref> The Supreme Court in 1991 upheld the settlement in 1991 thus ending Carbide's liability in the case.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Centre to press for Dow picking up clean-up tab\|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-20/india/28313743_1_curative-petition-bhopal-memorial-trust-compensation\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411033059/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-20/india/28313743_1_curative-petition-bhopal-memorial-trust-compensation\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=11 April 2013\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]\|date=20 June 2010}}</ref>		Pathak facilitated an out of court settlement<ref>{{cite news\|title=For A Few Pieces Of Silver\|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=Ne260610coverstory.asp\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=Tehelka\|date=26 June 2010}}</ref> between [[Union Carbide Corporation]] and the [[Government of India]] in 1989 regarding the compensation to be paid for the [[Bhopal gas tragedy]]. The government had sought $3.3 billion but received only $470 million and the settlement resulted in the dropping of [[criminal liability]] charges against Union Carbide in the case. Within three months of his retirement Pathak became a member of the International Court of Justice at [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite news\|title=Spotlight on judges who ruled in favour of Union Carbide\|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_spotlight-on-judges-who-ruled-in-favour-of-union-carbide_1394222\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=DNA\|date=10 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last=Keswani\|first=Raajkumar\|title=Bhopal verdict: Worst legal disaster of recent history\|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100609/main5.htm\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=The Tribune\|date=9 June 2010}}</ref> The Supreme Court in 1991 upheld the settlement in 1991 thus ending Union Carbide's liability in the case.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Centre to press for Dow picking up clean-up tab\|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-20/india/28313743_1_curative-petition-bhopal-memorial-trust-compensation\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411033059/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-20/india/28313743_1_curative-petition-bhopal-memorial-trust-compensation\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=11 April 2013\|accessdate=3 March 2013\|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]\|date=20 June 2010}}</ref>

	== Judge of the International Court of Justice ==		== Judge of the International Court of Justice ==

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| name = Raghunandan Pathak
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| order = 18th
| office = Chief Justice of India
| term_start = 21 December 1986
| term_end = 18 June 1989
| nominator = [[Chief Justice of India|CJI]] [[Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud|Y V Chandrachud]]
| appointer = [[President of India|President]] [[Giani Zail Singh]]
| predecessor = [[P. N. Bhagwati]]
| successor = [[Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah|E.S. Venkataramiah]]
| office1 = Chief Justice of [[Bombay High Court]]
| predecessor1 = Prakash Chandra Tatia <br> D. N. Patel (acting)
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'''Raghunandan Swarup Pathak''' (25 November 1924 – 17 November 2007) was the 18th [[Chief Justice of India]]. He was the son of [[Gopal Swarup Pathak]], a former [[Vice President of India]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Former CJI Pathak dead|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/former-cji-pathak-dead/240748|accessdate=3 March 2013|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=19 November 2007}}</ref>

He was one of the three judges from India to have been on the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]] (the others being [[Benegal Narsing Rau]] who served at ICJ during 1952 to 1953 [[Nagendra Singh]] who served as its President from 1985 to 1988 and former Supreme Court justice Dalveer Bhandari, who currently sits upon the World Court).<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE123BF930A25751C1A96E948260 Nagendra Singh, Judge At the World Court, 74] ''[[New York Times]]'', 13 December 1988.</ref>
He did his schooling from [[St. Joseph's College, Allahabad]] and had studied law at Allahabad University. After practising law at Allahabad, he became Judge at [[Allahabad High Court]] in 1962 and later Chief Justice of [[Himachal Pradesh High Court]] in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/rcji/18rspathak.htm |title=Former Hon'ble Chief Justices' of India |accessdate=21 February 2012}}</ref>

== At the Supreme Court of India ==
Pathak was made a judge at [[Supreme Court of India]] in 1978 and became its 18th Chief Justice on 21 December 1986. He is remembered as a judge who was a man of the middle and was able to bring relative peace to the Court. He served as Chief justice for two and a half years during which time a dozen judges were appointed to the Court. Five of them — [[Madhukar Hiralal Kania]], [[Lalit Mohan Sharma]], [[Justice venkatachaliah|Manepalle Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah]], [[Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi]], and [[Jagdish Sharan Verma]]— went on to serve as Chief Justices between 1991 and 1998.<ref>{{cite web|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950 - 1989 - The Pathak Court (1986–9)|url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198070610.001.0001/acprof-9780198070610-chapter-18|publisher=Oxford university Press|accessdate=3 March 2013}}</ref>

== Bhopal gas disaster ==
Pathak facilitated an out of court settlement<ref>{{cite news|title=For A Few Pieces Of Silver|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=Ne260610coverstory.asp|accessdate=3 March 2013|newspaper=Tehelka|date=26 June 2010}}</ref> between [[Union Carbide Corporation]] and the [[Government of India]] in 1989 regarding the compensation to be paid for the [[Bhopal gas tragedy]]. The government had sought $3.3 billion but received only $470 million and the settlement resulted in the dropping of [[criminal liability]] charges against Carbide in the case. Within three months of his retirement Pathak became a member of the International Court of Justice at [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Spotlight on judges who ruled in favour of Union Carbide|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_spotlight-on-judges-who-ruled-in-favour-of-union-carbide_1394222|accessdate=3 March 2013|newspaper=DNA|date=10 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Keswani|first=Raajkumar|title=Bhopal verdict: Worst legal disaster of recent history|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100609/main5.htm|accessdate=3 March 2013|newspaper=The Tribune|date=9 June 2010}}</ref> The Supreme Court in 1991 upheld the settlement in 1991 thus ending Carbide's liability in the case.<ref>{{cite news|title=Centre to press for Dow picking up clean-up tab|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-20/india/28313743_1_curative-petition-bhopal-memorial-trust-compensation|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411033059/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-06-20/india/28313743_1_curative-petition-bhopal-memorial-trust-compensation|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2013|accessdate=3 March 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=20 June 2010}}</ref>

== Judge of the International Court of Justice ==
Pathak was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice and served in that position from 1989 to 1991. He was elected in "casual election" that was held following the death of [[Nagendra Singh|M. Nagendra Singh]], an Indian judge who was then serving his second term at the International Court. In 1991 India decided not to renominate Pathak, who however entered the fray with the backing of [[Ireland]]. After the [[Irish government]] came under attack in the [[Dáil Éireann|Dáil]] from MPs who blamed Pathak for approving, as Chief Justice of India, the $470-million [[Bhopal gas disaster]] settlement with [[Union Carbide]], Pathak withdrew from the race.<ref>{{cite news|title=After two decades wait, India looking to get slot in ICJ|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2116222.ece|accessdate=3 March 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=19 June 2011}}</ref>

== Oil-for-Food Programme inquiry ==
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In November 2005, Justice Pathak was appointed to inquire into alleged Indian links in the [[Oil-for-Food Programme]]. On 3 August 2006, he submitted his 90-page report which indicted suspended Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister [[K. Natwar Singh]].<ref name="Oil-for-food: Pathak committee indicts Natwar">{{cite news|title=Oil-for-food: Pathak committee indicts Natwar|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-08-03/india/27813539_1_oil-for-food-justice-pathak-natwar-singh|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103205855/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-08-03/india/27813539_1_oil-for-food-justice-pathak-natwar-singh|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2013|accessdate=24 September 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=3 Aug 2006}}</ref>

== Death ==
Pathak died on 17 November 2007, at the age of 82 following a heart attack in [[New Delhi]].<ref>[http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/former-cji-r-s-pathak-passes-away_408129.html Former CJI R S Pathak passes away]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/ Official Supreme Court of India Website]

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