Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Altamas Kabir passes away in Kolkata
According to a press statement, published by Apollo Gleneagles Hospital in Kolkata, former CJ Altamas kabir took his last breath at 2:52 pm.
Kabir, a kidney transplant recipient in 2007, was suffering from End Stage Renal Disease, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Coronary Artery Disease – Post PTCA (2005), Ischemic CVA and Urinary tuberculosis, hospital reports said.
"Altamas Kabir was admitted to our hospital on February 8 with symptoms of fever with chills for past 5 days, urinary retention, hematuria and extreme weakness and he was under treatment of Senior Consultant & In Charge of Critical Care Dr. Suresh Ramasubban, Senior Consultant-Nephrology Dr. Abhijit Taraphder and Senior Consultant-Urology Dr. Amit Ghose," a senior official of Apollo Gleneagles Hospital told IBNS.
"Our hospital is following the West Bengal State protocol in informing all concerned in state administration, Calcutta High Court etc. about his sad demise," the official added.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her condolences over the death of former Supreme Court CJ on her Twitter handle: "Condolences on the passing of former CJ Altamas Kabir ji. My thoughts with his family and colleagues. India and Bengal have lost a legal luminary."
Justice Kabir in her long public life was hailed for his role in supporting the marginalised with his judgments.
He was born into an aristocratic Muslim family in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) . His father Jahangir Kabir was into politics and was an active trade union leader who also was a minister in the first non-Congress government in West Bengal in 1967.
According to reports on him in media, he was encouraged by his teacher in Calcutta Boys' High School to be a lawyer owing to his skill as a speaker.
He studied in the Presidency College (now university) in Kolkata with history and then studied both law and history from Calcutta University.
He joined the Bar in 1973 in Kolkata and started practising.
He had married a Catholic woman who was his neighbour in Kolkata living in the same house and had both a Church wedding and nikkah, said reports.
His career was also marked by controversies at the end when he on the day of his retirement headed a bench that quashed NEET Medical College entrance while the Supreme Court collegium had stalled Justice Kabir's move to appoint SC Judge just before his retirement.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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