Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore (born 1 July 1953) is a former judge at the

Jaipur Jaipur (; Hindi Language, Hindi: ''Jayapura''), formerly Jeypore, is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Rajasthan. , the city had a pop ...

bench of

Rajasthan High Court The Rajasthan High Court is the High Court of the state of Rajasthan. It was established on 29 August 1949 under the ''Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949''. The seat of the court is at Jodhpur. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 50. ...

Early life and education

Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore was born on 1 July 1953. He went to

Mayo College Mayo College (informally Mayo) is a boys-only independent boarding school in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. It was founded in 1875 by Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, who was the Viceroy of India from 1869 to 1872. This makes it one of the oldest Pub ...

Ajmer for his schooling and passed out in the year 1970. Justice Rathore graduated from

Kirori Mal College Kirori Mal College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Established in 1954, it is located in the North Campus of the university in New Delhi, India. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the sciences, humanities ...

, New Delhi. After finishing B.A. (Hons.) Justice Rathore enrolled himself for education in Law and completed LL.B. from

University of Rajasthan University of Rajasthan is a public and state university in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India and is one of the oldest universities in the state. It was set up on 8 January 1947 as the University of Rajputana and was given its current name in 1956. ...

, Jaipur in 1977.

Career

Shri Raghuvendra Singh Rathore enrolled himself as Advocate with

Bar Council of Rajasthan Bar Council of Rajasthan is the regulatory and statutorily representative body for lawyers practicing law in the state of Rajasthan. It was constituted as per the mandatory requirement as per Advocates Act, 1961 and Bar Council of India. In Mar ...

on 5 November 1977. Shri Rathore practised in civil criminal and constitutional branches of law. He was appointed as Additional Advocate General by the State Government of Rajasthan. He also represented a number of Government as well as non-Government Departments. He was appointed to the

National Green Tribunal The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 is an Act of the Parliament of India which enables the creation of a special tribunal to handle the expeditious disposal of the cases pertaining to environmental issues. It draws inspiration from India's ...

in January 2016.

Judgeship

On 5 July 2007 Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore was elevated an Additional Judge of

. Since then Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore is sitting at Jaipur bench of

Controversy

In 2013, Rathore was reported to have been confining his 30-year old daughter at home in order to prevent her inter-caste marriage. The Supreme Court had to intervene and free her from unlawful detention.

References

External links

Official webpage
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rathore, Raghuvendra Singh Judges of the Rajasthan High Court 1953 births Living people People from Ajmer Mayo College alumni Kirori Mal College alumni University of Rajasthan alumni 20th-century Indian judges