Key facts
- Born
- 3 December 1950
- Sector
- Law & judiciary
- Profession
- 42nd Chief Justice of India
- Gender
- Male
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Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu is a former Chief Justice of India, and former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. As the chief justice, he served for nearly 14 months, from 28 September 2014 to 2 December 2015. Before his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 17 December 2008, he had served as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and Chhattisgarh High Court.
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