India, Jan. 29 -- Justice S. Radhakrishnan, a retired judge of the Bombay high court, passed away on Tuesday. After serving as a judge at the Bombay high court, he also worked as the chairman of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal and headed a state-appointed committee on prison reforms, measures to reduce crowding in prisons, and better facilities based on the Model Prison Manual, 2016.

Senior advocate Dr Milind Sathe said that "not a lot of people might know this, but he was a devotee at ISKCON and had taken sanyaas. He gave up sanyaas and started practicing as a lawyer. He also taught at New Law College".

Sathe said justice Radhakrishnan delivered the landmark judgement on textile mill lands in Mumbai, restraining the millowner's...