Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar
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Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar or M. P. Thakkar (born 4 November 1923, date of death unknown) was an Indian judge who was a Justice of the Supreme Court of India, and Chairman of Twelfth Law Commission of India.
Early life
Thakkar was born in Burma, British India in 1923. He studied in National High School, Basavanagudi and B.E.T. High School at Rangoon. He passed LL.B from Sir L.A. Shah Law College of Ahmedabad.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sirlashah.org/Alumni.aspx|title=Alumni|access-date=31 October 2018}} After the enrollment he started practice in the Indian High Courts in 1948.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
Career
Thakkar practised on Civil, Criminal, Income-Tax, Industrial Disputes and Company matters before the then Saurashtra High Court at Rajkot and Bombay High Court.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} He worked in the Gujarat High Court since 1960 to 1963.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} He was appointed the Judge in City Civil and Sessions Court on 23 January 1963. Thakkar also served as Special Judge and Additional Judge in the Gujarat High Court.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} He became the Permanent Judge of the same High Court on 27 November 1973. Thakkar was elevated to the post of Chief Justice, Gujarat High Court on 20 August 1981.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=M.+P.+Thakkar&pg=PT247|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|last=George H. Gadbois Jr.|date=2 May 2011|isbn=9780199088386|access-date=31 October 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://legal.gujarat.gov.in/chief_justice.htm|title=Chief Justice of Gujarat|access-date=31 October 2018}} He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of India in March 1983.{{Cite web|url=http://164.100.107.37/judges/bio/54_mpthakkar.htm|title=Former Judges|access-date=31 October 2018}} He was the head of the investigating Thakkar Commission for the Assassination of Indira Gandhi.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/28/world/india-releases-stinging-report-on-gandhi-s-death.html|title=India Releases Stinging Report on Gandhi's Death|last=Hazarika|first=Sanjoy|date=28 March 1989|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=7 June 2019}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVTMqlezIrwC&q=M.+P.+Thakkar+died+on&pg=PA41|title=Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab|last=Volume 1|first=Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab|year=2003|isbn=9789993353577|access-date=31 October 2018}}
Later life
After his retirement, Justice Thakkar was appointed Chairman of Twelfth Law Commission of India in 1988.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/main.htm|title=POST-INDEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENTS|website=lawcommissionofindia.nic.in|access-date=31 October 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/19881115-fresh-strain-on-an-already-weakened-law-commission-797886-1988-11-15|title=Fresh strain on an already weakened Law Commission|website=indiatoday.in|access-date=31 October 2018}} Thakkar is deceased.[https://indiatogether.org/adalat-human-rights Crippling Lok Adalats][https://ghconline.gov.in/library/document/conference2728072018/III5Technology,%20Ethics%20and%20Access%20to%20Justice.pdf Technology, Ethics, and Access to Justice: Should an Alogrithm be Deciding Your Case? (2014)]
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