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'''Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai''' (14 December 1930 – 17 May 2004) or '''P. D. Desai''' was a former Chief Justice of several [[High Courts of India]]. He also held the additional charge of the Governor of the Indian state of [[Himachal Pradesh]] from 8 March 1986 to 16 April 1986.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5GpmoJ3BBIC&q=P.+D.+Desai+justice+Governor&pg=PR14|title=Himachal Pradesh|year=1956|isbn=9788171994656|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>

==Early life==
Desai was born in 1930. He studied at Nava Dehra Primary School, R.S.Dalal Government High School and Union High School in [[Bharuch district]]. He passed from [[St. Xavier's College, Bombay]] and University School of Economics and Sociology Bombay. He completed his legal studies from [[Government Law College, Bombay]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://hphighcourt.nic.in/fcj.htm|title=Former Chief Justices|website=hphighcourt.nic.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017123752/https://hphighcourt.nic.in/fcj.htm|archive-date=17 October 2018|access-date=17 October 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://justicepddesaifoundation.org/?page_id=221|title=Life Sketch|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>

==Career==
He got enrollment as an Advocate in 1955 and started practise on Civil, Criminal and constitutional matters. He also worked in the field of [[Taxation]], Company matter in [[Bombay High Court]] and High Court of Gujarat at [[Ahmedabad]]. On 19 February 1970 Desai was appointed as an Additional Judge of the [[Gujarat High Court]]. after two years he became the permanent Judge of the same High Court. He was transferred to [[Himachal Pradesh High Court]] and joined there as Chief Justice in 1983. He took over the charge of the [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|governors of Himachal Pradesh]] for few days in these period.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://himachalrajbhavan.nic.in/past_governors.html|title=GOVERNORS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref> In January 1988 Desai became the Chief Justice of the [[Calcutta High Court]], thereafter transferred to Bombay High Court in 1991. He retired on 14 December 1992<ref name=":0" /> from the post of the [[List of Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court|Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PrGad3wsjEC&q=Prabodh+Dinkarrao+Desai+justice&pg=PR23|title=The Right to Development in International Law|last=Subrata Roy Chowdhury, Erik M. G. Denters, Paul J. I. M. de Waart|date=9 April 1992|isbn=0792316827|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>

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[[Category:Judges of the Gujarat High Court]]
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