Former Supreme Court judge Justice HS Bedi passed away on Thursday.

According to a message circulated by the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association, the cremation will take place on Friday in Chandigarh.

"With profound grief and sorrow, it is to inform that Hon'ble Mr. Justice H.S. Bedi [Former Judge of Supreme Court of India, Former Chief Justice of High Court of Bombay and Former Acting Chief Justice of this High Court] father of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi, has left for his heavenly abode," the Association said in the message to its members.

It was also announced that as a mark of respect to the former judge, the lawyers at the High Court would abstain from work after 1 PM on Friday.

Justice Bedi was born on September 5, 1946. His father, Justice Tikka Jagjit Singh Bedi, was a judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Justice HS Bedi enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana on July 17, 1972.

He was also a part time lecturer in Law in 1974 and continued with the teaching till 1983. He also was a Deputy Advocate General with State of Punjab between 1983 and 1987.

He was designated a Senior Advocate in 1987 and remained Additional Advocate General, Punjab till 1989. He was appointed Advocate General of Punjab in 1990.

Almost a year later, he was made an Additional Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court on March 15, 1991.

He became a permanent Judge on July 8, 1992 and was later appointed as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on October 3 in 2006.

On January 12 in 2007, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court and retired on September 5, 2011.

In 2012, the Supreme Court had appointed Justice HS Bedi as Chairman of the Monitoring Authority constituted by the State of Gujarat, to look into all the cases of alleged fake encounters.

In a report later, Justice Bedi called for probe into three of the 17 cases considered by him. He also observed in his report that there had been no selective elimination of Muslims.