Justice S Mohan dies at 90 in city hospital

Mohan breathed his last at a private hospital here where he was undergoing treatment for age-related illness.

The legal luminary, who completed his law degree from Madras law college, enrolled as a lawyer in the Madras High Court in 1954. He also served in the law college as a part-time lecturer from 1956 to 1966.

Mohan became the special government pleader in 1967 and later was appointed the Advocate General of Madras in 1971. Later, in 1974, he was posted as additional judge in the Madras High Court. He was in 1988 appointed the acting Chief Justice (CJ) and the subsequent year made the permanent CJ. After serving as acting Governor of Karnataka in 1990, he was named as a Supreme Court judge in 1991, and retired in 1995.