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Sundaram Nainar Sundaram (3 August 1932 – September 2001) was an Indian judge and former Chief Justice of two
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Career

Nainar Sundaram was born in 1932 in
Tirunelveli Tirunelveli (), also known as Nellai and historically (during British rule) as Tinnevelly, is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of the Tirunelveli District. It is the fourth-largest munici ...
. His father Herbert Sundaram was a District and Sessions Judge. He studied at Anderson High School of
Kanchipuram Kanchipuram (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: '; ), also known as Kanjeevaram, is a stand alone city corporation, satellite nodal city of Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in the Tondaimandalam region, from ...
and P.S. Higher Secondary School. He graduated from
Loyola College, Chennai Loyola College is a government aided private Catholic higher education institution run by the Society of Jesus in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1925 by the France, French Jesuits, Jesuit priest, Francis Bertram, along with other ...
and obtained his law degree from
Madras Law College Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, commonly known by its former name Madras Law College, is a law school, located in Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), ...
. In 1955, Nainar Sundaram started practice in civil and criminal side in the
Madras High Court The High Court of Judicature at Madras is a High Courts of India, High Court located in Chennai, India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. It is one of ...
. On 4 January 1978 he was appointed an additional judge of Madras High Court. Nainar Sundaram was elevated to the post of the Chief Justice of
Gujarat High Court The Gujarat High Court is the High Court of the state of Gujarat. It was established on 1 May 1960 under the ''Bombay Re-organisation Act, 1960'' after the state of Gujarat split from Bombay State. The seat of the court is Ahmedabad. Establ ...
on 15 June 1992. Thereafter he became the Chief Justice of the
Telangana High Court The Telangana High Court is the High Court for the Indian state of Telangana. Founded by the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan, It was established as a High Court for the erstwhile Hyderabad State and in November 1956 after formati ...
in December 1993. Justice Nainar Sundaram was appointed the first Chairperson of
State Human Rights Commission Tamil Nadu The State Human Rights Commission of Tamil Nadu become functional vied notification G.O.Ms: 1466 on 17 April 1997. As it was constituted by the earlier notification G.O.Ms 1465 Dt: 20 December 1996. Tamil Nadu is one of the very few States whi ...
after retirement.


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1932 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Indian judges Judges of the Madras High Court Chief justices of the Gujarat High Court Chief justices of the Telangana High Court People from Tirunelveli Loyola College, Chennai alumni {{India-law-bio-stub