Nagpur: Former Justice of the Bombay High Court Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari died at
a private hospital in Nagpur, Maharashtra in the wee hours of Thursday. He was 91. Justice Dharmadhikari was not keeping well and two days back he was admitted to the private hospital where he suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday night, a source said. He breathed his last around 1 am on Thursday, he said. He is survived by two sons, senior Bombay HC judge Satyaranjan Dharmadhikari and senior lawyer Ashutosh Dharmadhikari, and daughter Dr Aruna Patil. Justice Dharmadhikari was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2003.

He was born on November 20, 1927 at Raipur (then in Madhya Pradesh). After graduating in law from Nagpur, he enrolled as an advocate of the Nagpur bench of the high court in 1956.