Bahauddin Farooqi (1927 – 5 July 2014) was a Kashmiri lawyer, jurist and political figure who served as the 12th Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.
[1] Farooqi pursued Law at Aligarh Muslim University after which he started practice at District Court Anantnag.
[2] He then joined judicial service and started his career as munsif in the subordinate judiciary and later served as law secretary to the government during the regime of Ghulam Muhammad Sadiq.
"[1] - ["My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir," 7th Edition, by Jagmohan, page 127-128].He died on 5 July 2014, in his residence at Srinagar at the age of 87.
[8] On 15 June 1990, Barbara Crossette,[2] a former New York Times correspondent and current member of the Council on Foreign Relations, reported on the work of Justice Farooqi in the years following the deployment of "thousands of Indian troops and paramiliary forces" in Kashmir: "In Srinagar, Mufti Bahauddin Farooqi, a former chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, and his son, [Mufti] Showkat Ahmed Farooqi, a lawyer, have begun documenting allegations of human and civil rights violations against Kashmiris.