Patna: The President of India has appointed justice Sudhir Singh as the acting chief justice of Patna high court. A notification to this effect was issued by the Union ministry of law and justice on Friday evening.Justice Singh will succeed chief justice Meenakshi Madan Rai, the second woman chief justice in the history of Patna high court, who is set to retire on July 11, 2026, after a brief one-month tenure at the helm.Born into a family of legal luminaries, justice Singh’s great-grandfather, Kishore Prasad Singh, practised in the local courts of Chapra in Saran district. His grandfather, Baldeo Prasad Singh, was an eminent criminal lawyer and long-serving president of the Barrister Association, the oldest lawyers’ body of Patna high court.Justice Singh’s father, late N P Singh, was a former judge of the Supreme Court and had also chaired the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, which dealt with the long-running inter-state water-sharing dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.After completing his schooling at Vikash Vidyalaya in Ranchi, now in Jharkhand, justice Singh studied law at Patna University and enrolled as an advocate in 1991.He was elevated as a judge of Patna high court on April 15, 2015, and became a permanent judge on April 15, 2016.
Justice Sudhir Singh
