A. N. Ray

Not to be confused with A. N. Rai.

Ajit Ray
14th Chief Justice of India
In office
26 April 1973 – 28 January 1977
Appointed byV. V. Giri
Preceded bySarv Mittra Sikri
Succeeded byMirza Hameedullah Beg
Personal details
Born(1912-01-29)29 January 1912
Died25 December 2009(2009-12-25) (aged 97)
Kolkata, India
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Ajit Nath Ray (29 January 1912 – 25 December 2009) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 25 April 1973 till his retirement on 28 January 1977.

Ray was the lone dissenter among the eleven Supreme Court judges that examined the constitutionality of the Bank Nationalization Act, in 1969. He had come to his appointment to the Supreme Court via Presidency College, Calcutta, Oriel College, Oxford, Gray's Inn, and the Calcutta High Court. His son Justice Ajoy Nath Ray became a Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.

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