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Madhavachari Srinivasan or M. Srinivasan (12 January 1937 — 25 February 2000) was an Indian judge who served as a justice of the
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.


Career

Srinivasan was born in 1937 in
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. After completion of a
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and
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he was enrolled as an advocate in 1958 and started practice in Civil and Constitutional matters in the
Madras High Court The Madras High Court is a High Court in India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is located in Chennai, and is the third oldest high court of India after the Calcutta High C ...
,
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. He was elevated as permanent judge of Madras High Court on 2 June 1986. Srinivasan was appointed Chief Justice of the
Himachal Pradesh High Court The Himachal Pradesh High Court is the High Court of the state of Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh was born as a result of integration of twenty six Province and four Punjab hill States into a Centrally Administered Area on 15 Ap ...
on 12 August 1996. He was promoted to the judge of Supreme Court of India in March 1997. Srinivasan died in 2000.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Srinivasan, Madhavachari 1937 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Indian judges 20th-century Indian lawyers Chief Justices of the Himachal Pradesh High Court Justices of the Supreme Court of India