Justice D P Wadhwa was born on 5^th May, 1935. His father’s name was Devinder Pratap. He pursued B.Sc. L.L.B. He enrolled as a pleader in 1958 in the Punjab High Court and started his practice in Delhi and became Advocate in 1962. In April, 1980 he was appointed Central Government Standing Counsel for Delhi High Court. After that he was appointed Additional Judge, Delhi High Court from 12^th August, 1983 and appointed permanent Judge on 23^rd Feburary, 1984. On 29^th September,1984, he appointed Chief Justice Patna High Court. Appointed as a judge of Supreme Court of India. And retired on 5^th May, 2000.

landmark judgement given by the Justice D P Wadhwa::::In the case of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, State Of Tamil Nadu Through … vs Nalini And 25 Others on 11 May, 1999, Wadhwa, J. took the view that confession of an accused is a substantive evidence against himself as well as against co-accused, abettor or conspirator.  On consideration of all the aforementioned confessions and other evidence against the appellants confirmed conviction of only A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-18 under Section 120- B read with Section 302 I.P.C. and confirmed death sentence of all of them while acquitting all other appellants.