Amitava Roy
Amitava Roy
Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Assumed Office27th Feb, 2015
Retired On1st Mar, 2018
Previously
Chief Justice of the Orissa High CourtAugust 6th 2014-February 26th 2015
Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High CourtJanuary 2nd 2013-August 5th 2014
Judge of the Gauhati High CourtFebruary 4th 2002 - January 1st 2013
Senior Advocate of the Gauhati High CourtJune 3rd 1999 - - February 3rd 2002
EnrollmentFebruary 20th 1976
Profile
Justice Amitava Roy was born on March 1st 1953 in Kolkata, West Bengal. He is the son of Late Anadi Bhushan Roy who was a Senior Advocate at Dibrugarh in the State of Assam. Justice Roy was enrolled with the Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh on 20th February 1976.
He practised in the district courts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia from 1976 to 1981. In 1981 he shifted his practise before the Gauhati High Court. He was the Senior Government Advocate of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh in the Gauhati High Court from 1991 to 1996. He was a member of the Assam Law Commission till his elevation to the Supreme Court.
Notable Judgments
In Shyam Narayan Chouksey v Union of India a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, which comprised of Justice Roy and Justice Dipak Mishra, made it compulsory for cinema halls across India to play the National Anthem of India before the screening of any film and directed that the audience need to stand while the National Anthem is being played.
In State Of Karnataka v Selvi J. Jayalalitha a Bench comprising of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy set aside the Karnataka high court’s acquittal of AIADMK leader Sasikala and convicted her of corruption.
In Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v State Of Maharashtra, a Bench comprising of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Amitava Roy and Justice P.C. Pant met in an unprecedented 90-minute hearing that started at 3.20 AM and rejected Memon’s mercy plea, observing that a stay on the death warrant could be a travesty of justice.