Bengaluru, April 25 : Karnataka government on Sunday said that the last rites of Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar, sitting Supreme Court judge who died in New Delhi last night, will be held with full state honour.

Shantanagoudar (62) died at a private hospital in Gurgaon, where he was admitted due to a lung infection and was in the ICU. He hailed from Haveri district in North Karnataka.

His last rites will be performed with full state honours and following Covid-19 guidelines, official sources said here on Sunday.

Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa expressing grief said,” in Shantanagoudar’s death India has lost a great judge

I pray to the Almighty to give strength to his family members to bear the loss.”

He was appointed as an additional judge of the Karnataka High Court on May 12, 2003 and became a permanent judge in the court in September, 2004.

He was transferred to the Kerala High Court, where he assumed charge as the Acting Chief Justice on August 1, 2016. He became the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court on September 22, 2016, before being elevated as an apex court judge.(UNI)