The President of India, Shri K R Narayanan at the Swearing-in-Ceremony of the Chief Justice of India, Shri Madan Mohan Punchhi at the Ashok Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Jan 18, 1998
Madan Mohan Punchhi (10 October 1933 – 17 June 2015) was the 28th Chief Justice of India from 18 January 1998 until his retirement on 9 October 1998.
He began his legal career in his father's chambers in 1955, and was appointed as a Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court in October 1979.
In October 1989, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in January 1998. Over the course of his Supreme Court tenure, Punchhi authored 142 judgments and sat on 776 benches.[1]
Post retirement, he was appointed by the Government of India as the Chairman of the Centre State relations commission, subsequently known as the Punchhi commission, which dealt with matters pertaining to the Centre-State relations in India.
