Background
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla was born on 23 July 1951, in Karaikudi, Sivagangai District, Tamil Nadu, India.
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla was born on 23 July 1951, in Karaikudi, Sivagangai District, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kalifulla enrolled as an advocate on 20 August 1975, after which he began practicing labour law in the law firm of Thomas Stearns Gopalan & Company On 2 March 2000, he was appointed as a judge of the Madras High Court. In September 2011, he was named as the Chief Justice of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.
On 2 April 2012, he was named to the Supreme Court of India, sworn in by Chief Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia.
In February 2011, he became a member of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and was appointed to serve as the acting Chief Justice two months later.