Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali (20 December 1920 – 20 August 1985) judge of the Supreme Court of India[1][2] and Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
[3] He was born in an aristocratic Shia Muslim family to Khan Bahadur Sir Sayyid Fazal Ali, the Governor of Assam and Odisha.
He received his primary education in St. Joseph convent, Patna (Bihar) and passed Matriculation in 1936 and B.A.(Hons.)
He was Chairman of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal in the year 1971, Vice-Chairman of the Amar Singh Club, Srinagar, a Member of the Nehru Award Jury from February 1972 to February 1975.
[4] He died on 20 August 1985 while a sitting judge of the Supreme Court and lies buried near Dargah Shah-i-Mardan in the Jorbagh Karbala complex, Delhi.