Chunilal Karsandas Thakker (also Thakkar) (born 10 November 1943, Mander near

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) is a retired judge of the

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Education and career

After taking primary education at Mander and

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, Thakker graduated from a college in

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and obtained an

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(law) degree from a law college in

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. He also obtained an

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degree from

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, and began practicing from 1968 in the

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. Thakker was appointed part-time Lecturer in Law in Sir

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, Ahmedabad, in 1970 and continued as such until he was elevated to Judge of the High Court of Gujarat on 21 June 1990. He was further promoted to Chief Justice of High Court of

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on 5 May 2000 and transferred as the Chief Justice of High Court of Judicature at

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on 31 December 2001. Thakker was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 7 June 2004. He was also Acting Governor of the State of Maharashtra from July to October 2002.

Publications

Thakkar has written several law books such as ''Lectures on Administrative Law'' (Students' Edition) and ''Code of Civil Procedure''. His book on the

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, 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.

References

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