New Delhi: Lokpal member Justice (retired) Ajay Kumar Tripathi, who tested positive for COVID-19, died after suffering a cardiac arrest at the AIIMS Trauma Centre here on Saturday, official sources said.
Tripathi (62) breathed his last around 9 PM.
A former chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court, he had been in the AIIMS Trauma Centre, which has been converted into a dedicated COVID-19 hospital, since the first week of April.
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"He was very sick. He was in the ICU and on ventilator for last three days," one of the sources said.
Tripathi is one of the four judicial members of the anti-corruption ombudsman, Lokpal.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi expressed profound grief over the death Ajay Kumar Tripathi.
In his condolence messages, Kumar said the death of Tripathi has caused an irreparable loss to the field of the judiciary.
Modi said that he has lost a close friend. He remembered his association with Tripathi since the infamous fodder scam days.
There was rarely any cultural functions in the city which he would not attend despite being the judge, Modi said.
PTI
