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'''Amratlal Paramananddas Ravani''', a former [[Chief Justice]] of [[Rajasthan High Court]], was born in 1934. He enrolled as an advocate with the [[Bar Council of Gujarat]] in 1962.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=High Court of Gujarat |url=https://gujarathighcourt.nic.in/cjjfull?jid=483 |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=gujarathighcourt.nic.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mr̥dula |first=Marudhara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQdPAAAAYAAJ |title=Transactions of Third Indo-Soviet Law Seminar |date=1987 |publisher=Jainsons Publications |language=en}}</ref><br />
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Ravani was appointed an Additional Judge of [[Gujarat High Court]] in 1982 and became a Permanent Judge the same year. He was transferred to [[Rajasthan High Court]] in 1995 and was appointed the [[Chief Justice]] of that court the same year. He resigned in 1996.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvhtAAAAMAAJ |title=Data India |date=1996 |publisher=Press Institute of India |language=en}}</ref><br />
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Ravani was a vocal critic of [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]'s communalism in the wake of the [[2002 Gujarat riots]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Varadarajan |first=Siddharth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1kc9GmFWePUC |title=Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy |date=2002 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-302901-4 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Engineer |first=Asghar Ali |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6BEiDPvg68C |title=The Gujarat Carnage |date=2003 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-2496-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-04-18 |title=Former Chief Justice at the Rajasthan High Court, A P Ravani and... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/former-chief-justice-at-the-rajasthan-high-court-a-p-ravani-news-photo/112300337 |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us}}</ref> He submitted a written testimony to the [[National Human Rights Commission]] after the riots.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VhAJMGtFIgMC |title=Human Rights Watch |publisher=Human Rights Watch |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Roy |first=Arundhati |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwbVDAAAQBAJ |title=The End of Imagination |date=2016-08-29 |publisher=Haymarket Books |isbn=978-1-60846-654-2 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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