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'''Sudhansu Kumar Das''' (born 3 September 1898) or S. K. Das was an Indian bureaucrat and Acting Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNCGAwAAQBAJ&q=Justice+S.+K+Das&pg=PA198|title=State of Justice In India: Issues of Social Justice|last=Ranabir Samaddar|date=11 April 2009|isbn=9788132104193|access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref>

==Early life==
Das completed his schooling from [[Krishnagar Collegiate School]], [[Krishnanagar, Nadia]]. He passed B.A. (Hons) from the [[Presidency College Calcutta|Presidency College]] and studied in the [[University of London]]. In 1921, he qualified [[Indian Civil Service]] by the open competitive examination and joined in the Indian administration.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://164.100.107.37/judges/bio/9_skdas.htm|title=Former Judges|access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref>

==Career==
Das worked in [[Bihar]] and [[Orissa]] as Assistant Magistrate and Collector thereafter served as District and Sessions Judge. He was Registrar of the [[Patna High Court]]. Das also became the Secretary, Legislative Department, Judicial Secretary and Legal Remembrancer and Labour Commissioner under the [[Bihar Government]]. In 1944 he was appointed as officiating Judge of the Patna High Court and became the Additional Judge in 1945. He served as Permanent Judge of the same High Court since 1948 to 1955.<ref name=":0" /> Das was elevated to the post of Chief Justice of the High Court in January 1955.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://patnahighcourt.gov.in/Judges_RET_CJ.aspx|title=LIST OF RETIRED CHIEF JUSTICE|website=patnahighcourt.gov.in|access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref> He was promoted to the Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 30 April 1956<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/14094|title=Apptt. of Shri Justice S.K. Das , Chief Justice of the patna High Court ,as Judge of the Supreme Court in the vacancy causes by the apptt. of Shri Justice S.R. das , as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.|date=23 August 2017|publisher=Abhilekh Patal|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> and served as acting Chief Justice from August, 1963. This period was described as Das Court. He inherited a court composed of 10 permanent judges, including himself.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=Sudhansu+Kumar+Das+Judge&pg=PT7|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|last=George H. Gadbois, Jr|date=2 May 2011|isbn=9780199088386|access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref> During this period Justice Das increased the strength of the Court, changed many personnel and tried to reform the infrastructures.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198070610.003.0005|title=The Das Court (1956–9)|website=oxfordindex.oup.com|access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref>

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