Rajesh Kumar Agrawal (born 5 May 1953) is the current President of the

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(NCDRC) and a former judge of the

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. He retired from the Supreme Court on 4 May 2018 and was appointed the President of the NCDRC on 1 July 2018. He served as the Chief Justice of the

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from 24 October 2013 till his elevation to the Supreme Court on 17 February 2014, having assumed the role of acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court after his predecessor, M. Y. Eqbal, became a judge of the Supreme Court on 7 February 2013. Agrawal started practicing law in 1976, having joined the chambers of his father Raja Ram Agrawal, a

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and former Advocate General for the State of

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. He was elevated as a permanent judge of the

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on 5 February 1999, where he served until his transfer to the Madras High Court as the acting Chief Justice on 6 February 2013.

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