Dhatri Saran Mathur

{{Short description|Indian justice}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2019}} '''Dhatri Saran Mathur''' ([[Devanagari]]: धातृ शरण माथुर), [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|I.C.S]].,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bureaucracytoday.com/latestnews.aspx?id=130474|title=The other face of the ICS|last=Bhatnagar|first=Arun|date=24 December 2015|publisher=Bureaucracy Today|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> (born 13 November 1912) was the former [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Allahabad High Court]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qx1wDQAAQBAJ&q=Justice+D+S+Mathur&pg=PT418|title=Courting Destiny: A Memoir|last=Shanti Bhushan|date=17 December 2008|publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=9789385990533|access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>

==Career== Mathur studied in Government Intermediate College of [[Etawah]], [[Agra university|Agra University]], [[Thomason Civil Engineering College]] of [[Roorkee]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. He passed [[Indian Civil Service]] on 16 September 1936 and joined in the post of Assistant Magistrate and Collector in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] under the British Government. In 1944 he became District and Sessions Judge. Since 17 August 1955 to 31 October 1956 he served as Judicial Commissioner of [[Bhopal State|Bhopal]]. He was appointed Additional Judge of the [[Allahabad High Court]] in 1959. Justice Mathur was elevated in the post of Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on 6 November 1973. He retired from the post on 13 November 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/Judges/ex-judges/DSMathur.htm|title=HON'BLE MR. DHATRI SARAN MATHUR|website=allahabadhighcourt.in|access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>

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