Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje (born 6 September 1939) is an Indian jurist, who served as the

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Who is Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje?
The Indian Express, 14 April 2018. from 08 May 2003 to 19 July 2008 and International President of

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Life and career

Kokje was born in

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on 6 September 1939. He started practising law in 1964 after completing his LLB from

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. He was appointed a judge of

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on 28 July 1990. He served as acting Chief Justice of

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for 11 months in 2001 and was designated as senior advocate of the

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in September 2002. He became

on 8 May 2003, serving in that post until 19 July 2008. He also served as the President of Bharat Vikas Parishad. On the 14th of April, 2018, he succeeded Shri Raghav Reddy as International President of VHP. Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje was elected new VHP chief. Shri Pravin Togadia was International Working President and he was succeeded by Shri Alok Kumar Advocate as International Working President of VHP. He served as one of the working defendants in the 2002 Zakia Jafri SC case.

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