G. B. Pattanaik
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 Gopal Ballav Pattanaik was born on 19 December 1937 in the city of Cuttack
Cuttack
Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...

, state of Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

, India
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 .
He is the eldest son of Late Shri Rashbehari Pattnaik and Late Srimati Bidulata Dei.

He attended Ravenshaw College
Ravenshaw College
Ravenshaw College is located in Cuttack, India.The college was established in 1878 for Thomas Edward Ravenshaw, a descendant of William Withers...

 in Cuttack and Allahabad University
Allahabad University
Allahabad University , is a premier Central University located in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its origins lie in the Muir Central College, named after Lt...

 and earned his law degree from M.S Law College, Utkal University
Utkal University
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar is the oldest university in Orissa and the 17th oldest university in India. It is a teaching-cum-affiliating university that has produced some of the best brains in Orissa. There are at 26 post-graduate departments at the university campus for studies and research in...

 in Orissa.

In 1962 He enrolled as an advocate for the High Court of Orissa and practised in civil, criminal, constitutional and business cases in Orissa High Court. He also appeared before the Supreme Court of India
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.

In 1971 he was appointed to the Standing Counsel for the State Government of Orissa. In 1974 he became an Additional Government Advocate, a post he would hold for four years. In 1983 He was elevated to the bench of the Orissa High Court as a permanent judge. In 1995 he was appointed the Chief Justice of Patna
Patna
Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...

 High Court. Several months later, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of India.

He went on to occupy the highest judicial post in the country as the Chief Justice of India on 8 November 2002 .

When Pattanaik took over as the Chief Justice of India it appeared that he would not be able to achieve much in the administration of the judiciary, in view of his retirement on December 19. Yet, he began a momentous chapter in the history of Indian judiciary by putting into practice the `in-house procedure' evolved in 1997 to deal with allegations of misconduct against members of the higher judiciary.

Some of the well published judgements of Justice Pattanaik include:
  • the Narmada Dam Project
    Narmada Dam Project
    The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a dam on the Narmada River near Navagam, Gujarat, India. It is the largest dam and part of the Narmada Valley Project, a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi purpose dams on the Narmada River...

    .
  • Denying the central government of India the ability to grant permission to Hindu organisations to perform ceremonies at the disputed Babri masjid site in Ayodhya.
  • Contempt of court case against Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy
    Arundhati Roy
    Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays...

    .
  • Acquittal of several persons belonging to the minority community in cases relating to the Bombay riots
    Bombay Riots
    The Bombay Riots usually refers to the riots in Mumbai, in December 1992 and January 1993, in which around 900 people died. An estimated 575 Muslims and 275 Hindus died, and 2,000 people were injured in the riots. . An investigative commission was formed under Justice B.N. Srikrishna, but the...

    .
  • The constitutional reference on the minority educational institutions.


Justice Pattanaik was a member of the Indo British and Indo-U.S. judicial exchange programme. He visited Britain and the United States
United States
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 and participated in work shops and seminars with the judges of the House of Lords
House of Lords
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 in Britain and the U.S Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...

, respectively.

He now resides in New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

with his wife Meera Patnaik and is active as an arbitrator.

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