Daulat Mal Bhandari
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Daulat Mal Bhandari was Chief Justice of High Court of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 in India, a member of the first Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

 and a freedom fighter .

He was member of Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1955 representing the Jaipur
Jaipur
Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....

 parliamentary constituency of Rajasthan.

Bhandari took active part in the freedom struggle. In 1942 he formed the "Azad Morcha" in Jaipur and staged satyagrah. He was imprisoned for nine months. He also organised ‘Praja Mandal’ in the Princely state of Jaipur.

He served as the Development and Agriculture Minister of the erstwhile Jaipur State in the year 1947 on being elected to the Jaipur State Legislative Assembly.

During the partition of India
Partition of India
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, he contributed in the rehabilitation of refugees from Sindh
Sindh
Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 and Western Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

.

Bhandari was a senior advocate on the rolls of the Bar Council of India. He was appointed a judge of the Rajasthan High Court in 1955 and he rose to become the Chief Justice there in the year 1968.

He also served as Chairman, Revenue Law Commission constituted by the Government of Rajasthan ; and as member, Krishna Godavari Water Dispute Tribunal constituted by the Government of India
Government of India
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. He was a founder member of the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. He also served as the Chairman of the Governing Body of the Lal Bahadur Shastri College ,Jaipur. HIs sons are
1.Dhirendra Singh Bhandari
2.Rajendra Bhandari
3.Mahendra Bhandari
4.Dr.Subhash Bhandari
5.Abhay Kumar Bhandari
6.Ajeet Bhandari

Daulat Mal Bhandari died on 10 January 2004 at Jaipur, Rajasthan at the age of 97.

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