Raja Vijayaraghavan Valsala (born 28 May 1967) is a judge of the

Kerala High Court The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and the Union territory of Lakshadweep. It is located in Kochi. Drawing its powers under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the High Court has the power to iss ...

. The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the

Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-indep ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South C ...

and in the Union Territory of

Lakshadweep Lakshadweep () is a union territory of India. It is an archipelago of 36 islands divided into three island subgroups: the Laccadive Islands in the middle with the Amindivi Islands in the north separated roughly by the 11th parallel north and ...

. The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at

Ernakulam Ernakulam () is the Central Business District of the city of Kochi in Kerala, India and has lent its name to the Ernakulam district. Many major establishments, including the Kerala High Court, the office of the Kochi Municipal Corporation ...

Kochi Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of ...

Early life and career

Raja completed his schooling from Deva Mata Convent School, Kollam,

Trinity Lyceum School, Kollam The Trinity Lyceum Higher Secondary School was founded in 1966 in the Kollam District by the Late Bishop of Quilon, Rt. Rev. Dr. Jerome. M. Fernandez. Trinity Lyceum educates people in the Kollam District in the fields of Arts, Commerce, Techn ...

, St. Aloysius Higher Secondary School, Kollam and Fatima Mata National College, Kollam, graduated from

Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering, Kollam The Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering, commonly known as TKMCE, is the first government-aided engineering institution in the Indian state of Kerala inaugurated on 3 July 1958. It is the first Government aided engineering college in K ...

and obtained a law degree from

Kerala Law Academy Kerala Law Academy (KLA), also referred to as the Kerala Law Academy Law College, is a self financing law college in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Founded in 1967, it is the first, and was for many years the only, self financing law instit ...

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Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

. Raja enrolled as an Advocate in 1994 and started practice at Kollam later shifted his practice to High Court of Kerala. On 10 April 2015 he was appointed as additional judge of Kerala High Court and became permanent from 5 April 2017

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{{India-law-bio-stub Living people Judges of the Kerala High Court 21st-century Indian judges 1967 births