Former Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir died at the Apollo Gleneagles hospital in Kolkata on Sunday, ANI reported. He was 68 years old. He was put on life support earlier in the day. He was suffering from various diseases,including end-stage renal disease, diabetes and coronary artery disease. He was admitted to hospital on February 8.

The 39th CHief Justice of India had enrolled as an advocate in 1973 at the Kolkata Bar Association and later practised at the Calcutta High Court. In 2005, he was elevated as a Supreme Court judge. He was appointed chief justice of India in September 2012, and served till July 2013.

Justice Kabir had delivered the judgment in the Sandhya Wankhade case, where the bench ruled that female relatives of the husband can also be booked under the Domestic Violence Act. Justice Kabir was also a part of the bench hearing the case of two Italian Marines who had allegedly shot dead two Kerala fishermen in 2012.