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| '''Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani''' (29 February 1904 – 28 November 1965) was the [[List of Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court|Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TstaDwAAQBAJ&q=Judge+CHAINANI+Bombay&pg=PT41|title=Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India|last=Abhinav Chandrachud|date=29 May 2018|isbn=9789353050214|access-date=27 June 2018}}</ref>
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| ==Early life==
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| Chainani was born to a [[Sindhis|Sindhi]] family in 1904 in [[British India]]. He primarily studied in [[Hyderabad]] then admitted to D J Sindh College of [[Karachi]]. In 1925 he passed B.A. in Natural Science Tripos from [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]], [[England]]. After passing [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]],<ref name="George H. Gadbois, Jr 2018">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=H.K+Chainani&pg=PT97|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|last=George H. Gadbois, Jr|date=2 May 2011|isbn=9780199088386|access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref> Chainani returned to [[India]] in 1927 and was first appointed Assistant collector at Sholapur then at [[Nashik|Nasik]], [[Khandesh]] and Poona.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bombayhighcourt.nic.in/cjshow.php?auth=amdldGlkPTEzJnBhZ2Vubz0y|title=CHIEF JUSTICE MR. HASHMATRAI KHUBCHAND CHAINANI|website=bombayhighcourt.nic.in|access-date=27 June 2018}}</ref>
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| ==Career==
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| He started his judicial career as an Assistant Judges at [[Pune|Poona]] in 1933 and was promoted as District and Sessions Judge at [[Solapur|Sholapur]]. In 1935, he was appointed Secretary to the Bombay Legislative Council and Assistant Legal Remembrancer. In 1944 Chainani became the Joint Secretary of Home Department, [[Bombay Presidency|Government of Bombay]] then transferred as Deputy Secretary to the Home Department of [[Government of India]]. He also worked as Revenue Commissioner. He was promoted a Puisne Judge of the [[Bombay High Court]] and after Justice [[M. C. Chagla|M C Chagla]] he was appointed as the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court in 1958.<ref name="George H. Gadbois, Jr 2018" /> in 1962 Chainani also worked as acting governor of the [[State of Maharashtra]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thesindhuworld.com/h-k-chainani/|title=H K Chainani|access-date=27 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IleHyBDWbzEC&q=H.K+Chainani&pg=PA156|title=Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories|last=Volume 16|first=S. C. Bhatt, Gopal K. Bhargava|year=2006|isbn=9788178353722|access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref> and honorary secretary of Environmental Action Group of [[Mumbai|Bombay]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/jk-to-go-for-law-on-heritage-protection/story-45EQ93APcH7t4cMHGH3ikL.html|title=JK to go for law on heritage protection|last=Ahmad|first=Rashid|date=2 December 2006|newspaper=Hindustan Times|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref>
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