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| name = Saiyed Saghir Ahmad<br />
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| office1 = 23rd [[Chief Justice]] of [[Andhra Pradesh High Court]]<br />
| term_start1 = 23 September 1994<br />
| term_end1 = 5 March 1995<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Sundaram Nainar Sundaram]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Prabha Shankar Mishra]]<br />
| nominator1 = [[M. N. Venkatachaliah]]<br />
| appointer1 = [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]<br />
| office2 = 17th [[Chief Justice]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir High Court]]<br />
| term_start2 = 18 March 1994<br />
| term_end2 = 22 September 1994<br />
| nominator2 = [[M. N. Venkatachaliah]]<br />
| appointer2 = [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]<br />
| predecessor2 = Satish Chandra Mathur<br />
| successor2 = M. Ramakrishna<br />
| office3 = [[Judge]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir High Court]]<br />
| term_start3 = 1 November 1993<br />
| term_end3 = 17 March 1994<br />
| nominator3 = [[M. N. Venkatachaliah]]<br />
| appointer3 = [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]<br />
| office4 = [[Judge]] of [[Allahabad High Court]]<br />
| term_start4 = 2 November 1981<br />
| term_end4 = 31 October 1993<br />
| nominator4 = [[Y. V. Chandrachud]]<br />
| appointer4 = [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]<br />
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'''Saiyed Saghir Ahmad''' (1 July 1935 – 31 January 2011) was a judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/90_ssahmad.htm |title=Supreme Court of India - Former Judges |accessdate=2015-09-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051131/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/90_ssahmad.htm |archivedate=4 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Saghir Ahmad received his early education at Christian College Lucknow. After passing the Intermediate examination, he went to [[Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh|Aligarh]] and obtained his BSc from [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. He returned to [[Lucknow]] to follow in the footsteps of his father, Syed Mohammed Husain, and joined the legal profession after obtaining a law degree from the [[University of Lucknow]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aligarhmovement.com/aligarians/Justice_Saiyed_Saghir_Ahmed|title=Justice Saiyed Saghir Ahmed {{!}} Aligarh Movement|website=aligarhmovement.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-24}}</ref><ref>http://hc.ap.nic.in/aphc/ssaj.html</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
Saghir Ahmad enrolled as an Advocate of the [[Allahabad High Court]] on 6 December 1961. He practiced [[Civil law (common law)|civil law]] before the Lucknow Bench. He became Standing Counsel of the [[Government of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh Government]] in 1976 and of the [[Northern Railway zone|Northern Railway]] in 1971. He was appointed Additional Judge of Allahabad High Court on 2 November 1981 and permanent Judge on 30 December 1982.<br />
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He was transferred to the [[Jammu and Kashmir High Court|Jammu & Kashmir High Court]] on 1 November 1993. He was appointed the Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court on 18 March 1994. He was transferred as Chief Justice of [[Andhra Pradesh High Court]] on 23 September 1994. He was appointed as judge of the Supreme Court of India on 6 March 1995 and retired on 30 June 2000.<br />
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==Death==<br />
Saghir Ahmad died on 31 January 2011, after a week of hospitalization with respiratory distress. He was 75.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Masood |first1=Naved |date=2 February 2011 |title=Obituary: Justice Saiyed Saghir Ahmed |url=https://twocircles.net/2011feb02/237613.html |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=Two Circles}}</ref><br />
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