Dwivedi Surendra Narayan

Surendra Narayan Dwivedi (1 October 1913 - 8 December 1974) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India and also of Allahabad High Court.

Life and work

He completed his matriculation from a Government High School, Hamirpur, pursued BA, and then LLB, and studied at Ewing Christian College, Allahabad, and the University of Lucknow. He was enrolled as a pleader in 1937, and as an advocate in October 1943. He had a substantial civil practice.

Dwivedi worked as junior standing council from November 1954 to December 1955. He served at the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad from 2 May 1959 to 14 August 1972.

He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on 14 August 1972 and served until 8 December 1974. He died of cancer while in office in 1974.

His son Rakesh Dwivedi, practices as a senior lawyer for the Supreme Court of India and his granddaughter, Divya Dwivedi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.