Early Days:Kapadia was born to a genteel, lower-middle-class Parsi family in the Girgaum area of South Mumbai. His father was a clerk in a defense establishment and his mother a housewife. And a good higher education was a luxury. Before continuing on his education further, he decided to work and finance the education of his brother.
Kapadia’s journey from South Mumbai to Central Delhi is nothing but remarkable. He started his career as a class IV employee to supplement the meager earnings of his family. He first ensured that he earned enough to support his father and finance his younger brother’s studies before he could start his journey as a lawyer. He applied for his license to practice law only when he was 27.
When a wide-eyed Parsi teenager with a slightly unkempt look first arrived at the plush law offices of Behramjee Jeejeebhoy in the Fort area of Mumbai in the early 1960s, people at the office thought he had probably lost his way. He had come to join work as office help to add to his family’s income. Along the way, even before he started to study law, Sarosh Homi Kapadia began harboring ambitions to become a judge.
A knack to handle revenue laws made him a most wanted lawyer in those days. But he chose to become a judge over a lucrative career as a lawyer. It was just his single-minded ambition that took him from genteel poverty to the country’s apex court. Kapadia was appointed an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court in October 1991.
Even before Sarosh had started studying law, he was determined to write competitive exams and rise up to becoming a judge one day. That ambition scaled its peak when the humble Parsi boy from Mumbai took over as the Chief Justice of India.
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