Koka Subba Rao (15 July 1902 – 6 May 1976) was the ninth Chief Justice of India (1966–1967).

[1][2] He was born into a Velama family at Rajamahendravaram on the banks of Godavari River in present day Andhra Pradesh.

[citation needed] He joined the office of his father-in-law, P. Venkata Raman Rao Naidu, who was junior of the Andhra Kesari Prakasam Pantulu.

After Venkata Raman Rao was elevated as Judge of Madras High Court, Subbarao partnered with gifted brother-in-law P. V. Rajamannar, who later became Advocate-General and Chief Justice of Madras High Court.

But Prakasam insisted on having Subbarao as the Special Officer to facilitate the formation of High Court.

His most famous judgment was for the landmark Golaknath v. State of Punjab case where he ruled that Fundamental Rights could not be amended.

[3] Subba Rao retired on 11 April 1967 to contest the fourth presidential elections as the consensus candidate of opposition parties.

245, 246 and 248 read with Entry 97 of List 1; (ii) the amending power can not be used to abridge or take away the fundamental rights guaranteed in Part III of the Constitution; (iii) a law amending the Constitution is "Law" within the meaning of Art.

As regards the First, Fourth and Seventh Amendments, these having long endured and been acquiesced in, he does not treat the question of their validity as being before him.

13 (2) and is an inroad into fundamental rights, is beyond the reach of the courts because it falls within the word "law" in Arts.