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{{Short description|Indian judge}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Justice
| birth_name = Bilal Nazki
| image = Bilal Nazki, 2010 (cropped).jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes| 1947|11|18}}
| birth_place = [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], [[Dominion of India|India]]
| office = 23rd [[Chief Justice]] of [[Odisha High Court]]
| predecessor = [[B. S. Chauhan]]
| successor = [[Venkate Gopala Gowda]]
| term_start = 14 November 2009
| term_end = 17 November 2009
| father = [[Ghulam Rasool Nazki]]
}}

'''Justice Bilal Nazki''' (born 18 November 1947) is an Indian jurist. He is a former [[Chief Justice]] of [[Orissa High Court]]<ref name="IT20091116">{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nazki-is-orissa-high-court-chief-justice-61001-2009-11-16|title=Nazki is Orissa High Court Chief Justics|date=16 November 2009|accessdate=14 July 2020|work=India Today|agency=Press Trust of India}}</ref> and served as a judge in the High Courts of [[High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh|Jammu & Kashmir]], [[Andhra Pradesh High Court|Andhra Pradesh]] and [[Bombay High Court|Bombay]]. He has also served as the Chairman of the [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu & Kashmir]] State Human Rights Commission and the [[Bihar Human Rights Commission|Human Rights Commission of Bihar]].<ref name="TOI20140311">{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Rights-panel-no-alternative-to-judicial-system-Bilal-Nazki/articleshow/31817186.cms |title=Rights panel no alternative to judicial system: Bilal Nazki |date=3 March 2014 |first=Vithika|last=Salomi|publisher=TOI|accessdate=1 April 2014}}</ref> He also headed the committee set up by the [[Government of India]] to review the functioning of the [[Haj Committee of India]] and its state units.<ref name="YAH20131010">{{cite news |url=https://twocircles.net/2013oct10/panel_review_haj_committees_set.html |title=Panel to review Haj committees set up |date=10 October 2013 |work=[[Two Circles]] |agency=[[Indo-Asian News Service|IANS]] |accessdate=2024-09-06}}</ref>

== Career ==
Bilal Nazki was born on 18 November 1947 in [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India into a [[Kashmiri Muslim]] family and was educated at the [[Aligarh Muslim University]].<ref name="DNA20091113">{{cite news |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_nazki-bids-adieu-to-bombay-high-court_1310940 |title=Nazki bids adieu to Bombay high court |date=13 November 2009 |first=Mayura |last=Janwalkar |publisher=DNA |accessdate=4 October 2012}}</ref> He was one of eight children and his father, [[Ghulam Rasool Nazki]]  — a broadcaster, poet and literary figure who won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1987 — had moved from [[Bandipora]] to Srinagar in the year of Bilal's birth.<ref name="HT20091016">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Admired-for-not-mincing-words/Article1-465913.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125055318/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Admired-for-not-mincing-words/Article1-465913.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 January 2013 |title=Admired for not mincing words |first=Ashiq |last=Hussain |work=Hindustan Times|location=Srinagar |date=16 October 2009 |accessdate=4 October 2012 }}</ref>

After graduation he joined the [[Bar (law)|Bar]] in Srinagar and practised in various courts, while also spending some time as a lecturer of the [[Kashmir University]]. He worked as an advisor to the state government on various matters and was a member of the Delimitation Commission, which was concerned with electoral matters. Nazki was appointed Deputy [[Advocate-General]] of Jammu and Kashmir in 1986 and promoted to Advocate-General in January 1992.<ref name="BBA" /> In 1991, while serving as an advocate and during a period of considerable instability in the state, he was kidnapped by an unidentified militant group but managed to escape his captors, who shot him five times as he did so. He ran {{convert|5|km|mi}} or {{convert|6|km|mi}} to a hospital.<ref name="DNA20091113" /><ref name="DNA20091125" />

He became an Additional Judge in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in January 1995 and was made a Permanent Judge in December.<ref name="BBA">{{cite web|url=http://www.bombaybar.com/notices/tea_party_for_the_honble_mr_justice_bilal_nazki.php |title=Tea Party for the Hon'ble Mr Justice Bilal Nazki |publisher=Bombay Bar Association |accessdate=4 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305094629/http://www.bombaybar.com/notices/tea_party_for_the_honble_mr_justice_bilal_nazki.php |archivedate=5 March 2012}}</ref>

In October 1997 he was transferred to the [[High Court of Andhra Pradesh]].<ref name="BBA" /> While based there, he twice served as Acting Chief Justice — between April and November 2005, and November 2007 to January 2008. During his time in Andhra Pradesh he held various other posts while continuing to perform his duties in court:

*Twice President of the Andhra Pradesh State Judicial Academy
*Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh High Court Legal Services Committee
*Chancellor of National Academy of Legal Studies & Research University (NALSAR), Hyderabad
*Twice the Enquiry Judge of Coal Mine Accidents
*Executive Chairman of Andhra Pradesh State Legal Services Authority.

Nazki moved to the [[Bombay High Court]] in January 2008. He moved from Bombay to become Chief Justice of Orissa High Court on 14 November 2009 and retired from there. In retirement, Nazki has commented on the nature of legal judgements, saying that "One [type] may be great for legal and academic purposes, There is another which may not lay down any theory but will wipe the tears of an aggrieved person." He placed his own actions in the latter group.<ref name="DNA20091125">{{cite news |title=Judge's honesty is like girl's virginity |date=25 November 2009 |first=Mayura |last=Janwalkar |publisher=DNA |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_judge-s-honesty-is-like-girl-s-virginity_1316132 |accessdate=4 October 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101223232713/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main44.asp?filename=Ne030410weighing_the.asp Weighing The Scale Of Justice As A Goldsmith Weighs The Gold]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108025241/http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/10/stories/2005091016470300.htm Teach forensic medicine to police, says Nazki]

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[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]
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