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Amratlal Paramananddas Ravani, a former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, was born in 1934. He enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Gujarat in 1962.[1][2]

Ravani was appointed an Additional Judge of Gujarat High Court in 1982 and became a Permanent Judge the same year. He was transferred to Rajasthan High Court in 1995 and was appointed the Chief Justice of that court the same year. He resigned in 1996.[1][3]

Ravani was a vocal critic of BJP's communalism in the wake of the 2002 Gujarat riots.[4][5][6] He submitted a written testimony to the National Human Rights Commission after the riots.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "High Court of Gujarat". gujarathighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  2. ↑ Mr̥dula, Marudhara (1987). Transactions of Third Indo-Soviet Law Seminar. Jainsons Publications.
  3. ↑ Data India. Press Institute of India. 1996.
  4. ↑ Varadarajan, Siddharth (2002). Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy. Penguin Books India. ISBN 978-0-14-302901-4.
  5. ↑ Engineer, Asghar Ali (2003). The Gujarat Carnage. Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-81-250-2496-5.
  6. ↑ "Former Chief Justice at the Rajasthan High Court, A P Ravani and..." Getty Images. 2011-04-18. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  7. ↑ Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch.
  8. ↑ Roy, Arundhati (2016-08-29). The End of Imagination. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-60846-654-2.