Nauvdip Kumar Sodhi

Justice N. K. Sodhi
Presiding Officer of Securities Appellate Tribunal
In office 21 December 2005 – 28 November 2011
Preceded by	Kumar Rajarathnam
Succeeded by	J.P. Devadhar
Chief Justice of Kerala High Court
In office 19 November 2004 – 29 November 2005
Preceded by	Nagendra Kumar Jain
Succeeded by	Cyriac Joseph
Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court
In office 5 April 2004 – 17 November 2004
Preceded by	Jawahar Lal Gupta
Succeeded by	B. Subhashan Reddy
Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court
In office March 1991 – January 2004
Personal details
Born	(1943-11-29)29 November 1943
Died	28 December 2021(2021-12-28) (aged 78) Chandigarh
Cause of death	COVID-19
Citizenship	Indian
Nationality	Indian
Spouse	Neelam Sodhi

Nauvdip Kumar Sodhi was an Indian judge who served as Chief Justice of the Kerala and Karnataka High Courts. He also served as the Presiding Officer of the Securities Appellate Tribunal.

Career

Sodhi graduated in law from Panjab University in 1965 and started practicing as an advocate in civil, constitutional, labour, tax, transport and corporate laws in Chandigarh. He also served as editor of the Indian Law Reports (Punjab and Haryana series) and was a part-time law faculty at the Panjab University. In March 1991 he was elevated as Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, later transferred to Kerala High Court where he served as acting Chief Justice and became Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and was transferred to Karnataka as Chief Justice from where Justice Sodhi demitted his office upon attaining age of superannuation on 29 November 2005. After retirement he was appointed as the Presiding Officer of the Securities Appellate Tribunal at Mumbai, for a period of six years.

Death

After he contracted COVID-19, he developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and was moved to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. He succumbed to COVID-19, on 28 December 2021, at the age of 78.