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Chunilal Karsandas Thakker (also Thakkar) (born 10 November 1943, Mander near Porbandar, Gujarat, India) is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Education and career
After taking primary education at Mander and Madhavpur, Thakker graduated from a college in Junagadh and obtained an LLB (law) degree from a law college in Jamnagar. He also obtained an LLM degree from Gujarat University, and began practicing from 1968 in the High Court of Gujarat.
Thakker was appointed as part-time Lecturer in Law in Sir L.A. Shah Law College, 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 Himachal Pradesh, Shimla on 5 May 2000 and transferred as the Chief Justice of High Court of Judicature at Mumbai on 31 December 2001.
He was also Acting Governor of the State of Maharashtra from July to October 2002. Thakker was appointed as 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 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 has remained a standard textbook for law students in India for the past 25 years. He revised Law of Writs by V.G. Ramachandran.