Barjor Jamshedjee Dalal

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Barjor Jamshedjee Dalal was an Indian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and briefly as Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in 1936. Earlier, he was a judge at the Allahabad High Court from 1925 to 1931. Dalal became Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir in 1931 and served in that role until 1936, having been appointed by King George V. In 1931, after the Kashmir unrest known as the 13 July Incident, he chaired a Commission of Inquiry into the events, with two official High Court judges and two non-official members (one Muslim and one Hindu). In 1936, his term as Prime Minister ended, and he was succeeded by N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar.