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'''Guna Vasantha Pai''' was a Senior Advocate of the [[Madras High Court]] and [[Supreme Court of India|Indian Supreme Court]], a [[Resistance movement|freedom fighter]], activist and a member of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Council]] (MLC).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/vasantha-pai-an-advocates-advocate/article356016.ece |title=Vasantha Pai, an advocate's advocate - TAMIL NADU |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=2009-02-16 |accessdate=2016-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=624eAQAAIAAJ&q=vasantha+pai+legislative+council | title=Debates, Official Report, Volume 132 | publisher=Tamil Nadu (India). Legislature. Legislative Council | date=1975 | accessdate=10 September 2021 | pages=156}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1159245/ |title=G. Vasantha Pai vs Sri S. Ramachandra Iyer Now ... on 20 March, 1967 |website=Indiankanoon.org |date= |accessdate=2016-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=215691081000 |title=C Hariprasad Vs. G Vasantha Pai |website=The-laws.com |date= |accessdate=2016-12-08}}</ref>
He is best known for filing one of the first [[Public interest litigation in India|public interest litigations]] against the then sitting Chief Justice of the Madras High court [[S. Ramachandra Iyer]] after Pai found evidence<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-openpage/the-controversy-over-age-then-and-now/article2841441.ece | title=The controversy over age... then and now | work=[[The Hindu]] | date=29 January 2012 | accessdate=8 April 2015}}</ref> that the judge had forged his date of birth to avoid compulsory retirement at the age of 60 and the judge's younger brother sent invitations to celebrate his [[Shashti Poorthi|60th birthday]] this led the then [[Chief Justice of India]] [[P. B. Gajendragadkar]] to ask Ramachandra Iyer to resign as the case would severely damage the judiciary and he resigned before the case came up for hearing this led the case to be dismissed as he had resigned. He was elected to the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Council]] he refused to take oath from the then pro-tem chairman, Abdul Wahab as he had advocated secession and swore himself as a legislator his oath was upheld by the [[Madras High Court]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/766801/ | title=Madras High Court G. Vasantha Pai vs C.K. Ramaswamy And Anr. on 5 July, 1978 | publisher=Indian Kanoon | accessdate=10 September 2021}}</ref>

==Early life==
At a young age, Vasantha Pai joined public life. He actively participated in India's freedom struggle as a response to [[Mahatma Gandhi|Mahatma]]’s call. Pai enrolled as a student of the [[Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai|Madras Law College]]. With lot of struggles, he obtained his law degree. Later Pai got his early practical training from his father, Guna Pai, who was a famous commercial lawyer in [[Ernakulam|Ernakulam, Kerala]]. Pai moved to [[Chennai]] in the 1950s and started his legal practice. During the same time, the Indian High Courts began in exploring their new constitutional powers under the writ jurisdiction. Vasantha Pai specialized in election law issues and corporate matters and became a well-known authority on these legal subjects.<ref>{{cite web|last=Raghavan |first=Vikram |url=https://lawandotherthings.blogspot.in/2009/02/g-vasantha-pai-unsung-pioneer-of.html |title=Law and Other Things: G. Vasantha Pai - Unsung Pioneer of Judicial Accountability in India |website=Lawandotherthings.blogspot.in |date=2009-02-01 |accessdate=2018-12-12}}</ref>

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