A retired judge of the Supreme Court, Patil took over Aug 3 from another former apex court judge N. Santosh Hegde, whose explosive report on illegal mining scam resulted in the fall of the south India's first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, led by B.S. Yeddyurappa, July 31.
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