[1] He served between 1985–1986 and was succeeded by Justice Cecil Henry Ethelwood Miller.
He studied at the Government Indian School before moving to London and enrolling at the Middle Temple.
He was called to the Bar in London in 1935 and on his return to Kenya he was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court in 1936.
[4] In 1955, Madan was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Commerce and Industry and the following year he became Asian Minister without portfolio.
In 1985, he succeeded Alfred Simpson as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya.