In an official ceremony, attended by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and some of his cabinet collegues, electricity minister Arcot N.Veeraswamy and law minister Durai Murugan, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala administered the oath of office to Justice Ganguly, who was transferred from the Orissa High court.
This was Mr Karunanidhi’s first public function after he was discharged from a private hospital on Sunday.
The chief minister pre sented a yellow coloured silk shawl and bouquet of flowers to Mr Ganguly after the latter was sworn in as Chief Justice at a function in Raj Bhavan.
Born on February 3, 1947, Mr Ganguly, who hails from West Bengal, after completing M.A (English) in 1968 and LLB in 1970 from Calcutta University, was enrolled as an advocate on December 1, 1971.
He practiced in the Calcutta high court and also in the Supreme Court and handled cases dealing with Constitutional, Service, labour, Company, Education, Revenue, Customs, Civil and Criminal matters.
He was appointed as a permanent judge of Calcutta high court on January 10, 1994. Immediately, he was transferred to Patna high court.
After being in Patna high court for more than six years, he was transferred to the Calcutta high court in August, 2000.He was shifted to the Orissa high court in April 2006.He became its acting Chief Justice in January 2007 and the regular Chief Justice on March 2, 2007.