C. K. Thakker
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Chunilal Karsandas Thakker (also Thakkar) (born 10 November 1943)[1] is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.[2]
Biography
Thakker was born 10 November 1943, Mander near Porbandar, Gujarat, India. After taking primary education at Mander and Madhavpur, Thakker graduated from a college in Junagadh and obtained a Bachelor of Laws from a law college in Jamnagar. He also obtained a Master of Laws from Gujarat University, and began practicing from 1968 in the Gujarat High Court.
He was appointed part-time lecturer in law in L.A. Shah Law College, Ahmedabad, in 1970 and continued as such until he was elevated as a judge of the Gujarat High Court on 21 June 1990. He was promoted to Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court,[3] Shimla on 5 May 2000 and transferred as the Chief Justice of High Court of Judicature at Mumbai on 31 December 2001.[4][5]
Thakker was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 7 June 2004.[1] He was also acting governor of the State of Maharashtra from July to October 2002.[6][7]
Publications
Thakkar has written several law books such as Lectures on Administrative Law (Students' Edition) and Code of Civil Procedure.[8][9] His book on the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 published under the pen name of C.K. Takwani has remained a standard textbook for law students in India for the past 25 years. He revised Law of Writs by V.G. Ramachandran.[10]
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- Profile on website of Supreme Court of India
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- 1943 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Indian judges
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- Judges of the Gujarat High Court
- Chief justices of the Himachal Pradesh High Court
- Chief justices of the Bombay High Court
- Justices of the Supreme Court of India
- Gujarat University alumni
- People from Porbandar district