Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) AM Ahmadi breathed his last on the morning of Thursday, 2 March. He was 91 years old.
Son of a junior civil judge, Justice Ahmadi was born in 1932 in Surat, Gujarat.
In an interview (in 2014) with Bar and Bench, he had recounted that although he grew up in a “legal atmosphere”, his father wanted him to become an engineer.
But, Ahmadi soon decided that engineering wasn’t his cup of tea and he "hopped into the law field and joined the law college." Subsequently, he cleared his enrolment exam in the first attempt and started practice in 1954.