Mohammad Hidayatullah

Mohammad Hidayatullah
Portrait, c. 1980
President of India
Interim
20 July 1969 – 24 August 1969
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Vice PresidentVacant
Preceded byV. V. Giri (interim)
Succeeded byV. V. Giri
Vice President of India
In office
31 August 1979 – 30 August 1984
President
Prime MinisterCharan Singh
Indira Gandhi
Preceded byB. D. Jatti
Succeeded byRamaswamy Venkataraman
Chief Justice of India
In office
25 February 1968 – 16 December 1970
Appointed byZakir Husain
Preceded byKailas Nath Wanchoo
Succeeded byJayantilal Chhotalal Shah
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office
1 December 1958 – 24 February 1968
Nominated bySudhi Ranjan Das
Appointed byRajendra Prasad
Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court
In office
1 November 1956 – 30 November 1958
Appointed byRajendra Prasad
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byGanesh Prasad Dutt
Chief Justice of Nagpur High Court
In office
3 December 1954 – 31 October 1956
Appointed byRajendra Prasad
Preceded byBhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Judge of Nagpur High Court
In office
27 June 1946 – 2 December 1954
Appointed byLord Wavell
Chief JusticeFrederick Louis Grille
Personal details
Born(1905-12-17)17 December 1905
Died18 September 1992(1992-09-18) (aged 86)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
(present-day Mumbai)
PartyIndependent
SpousePushpa Shah
Alma materNagpur University
Trinity College, Cambridge
Lincoln's Inn
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • politician
  • academician
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Mohammad Hidayatullah, OBE (pronunciation; 17 December 1905 – 18 September 1992) was an Indian jurist and statesman who served as interim President of India in 1969. He concurrently served as Chief Justice of India from 1968 to 1970 and then as Vice President of India from 1979 to 1984.