>Kiranskumar at 13:04, 7 June 2021

2021-06-07T13:04:54Z

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox judge
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable|Hon'ble Mr. Justice]]
| name = Jaishanker Manilal Shelat
| honorific-suffix =
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| office = [[Judge]], [[Supreme Court of India]]
| term_start = 24 February 1966
| term_end = 30 April 1973
| nominator = 
| appointer = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]
| predecessor =
| successor =
| office1 = [[Chief Justice of Gujarat|3rd Chief Justice]]<br/>of the [[High Court of Gujarat]]
| term_start1 = 23 May 1963
| term_end1 = 24 February 1966
| nominator1 = 
| appointer1 = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]
| predecessor1 = [[Kantilal Thakoredas Desai]]
| successor1 = [[Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy]]
| office2 = [[Judge]], [[High Court of Bombay]]
| term_start2 = 6 January 1957
| term_end2 = 30 April 1960
| nominator2 = 
| appointer2 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]
| predecessor2 = 
| successor2 = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1908|07|16}}
| birth_place =
| death_date ={{Death date and age|df=yes|1985|11|1|1908|07|16}}
| death_place =
| father =
|spouse =
|children =
|alma_mater = [[Institute of Historical Research]],<br/>[[King's College London]], [[Elphinstone College]]
}}

Justice '''Jaishanker Manilal Shelat''' (16 July 1908 – 1 November 1985) was a Judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]] from February 1966 to April 1973. Before that, he served as the [[Chief Justice of Gujarat|third Chief Justice]] of the [[High Court of Gujarat]] serving from May 1963 till his elevation to the Supreme Court.<ref name="GujaratHC">{{Cite web |url=http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in/cjjfull?jid=402 |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jaishanker Manilal Shelat |website=[[High Court of Gujarat]] |language=en |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref><ref name="SupremeCourtOfIndia">{{Cite web |url=http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/chief-justice-judges |title=Former Chief Justice & Judges |website=[[Supreme Court of India]] |language=en |access-date=2017-12-06}}</ref>

==Education==
Shelat initially studied at Jubilee Institution in [[Umreth]]. He got his [[Bachelor of Arts]] (Honours) in [[English literature]] from [[Elphinstone College]], [[Bombay]]. Later, he went to [[King's College London|King's College]] and the [[Institute of Historical Research]] of the [[University of London]] where his submitted his [[thesis]] on "''Criticism and defence of the constitution of the [[United States Senate|Senate of the United States of America]] during the campaign for ratification 1787-1789.''"<ref name="GujaratHC"/><ref name="LondonThesis">{{Cite thesis |last=Shelat |first=Jeyshanker M. |title=Criticism and defence of the constitution of the Senate of the United States of America during the campaign for ratification 1787-1789 |date=1933 |degree=M. A. |publisher=[[University of London]] |url=http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2291438~S10}}</ref>

==Career==
He joined the [[Bar (law)|Bar]] at [[Inner Temple]] in 1933 and shifted to India soon after. Shelat became a Judge at the Bombay City Civil Court and an Additional Sessions Judge for Greater Bombay in September 1948. He was appointed an Additional Judge of the [[High Court of Bombay]] in January 1957 and made a Permanent Judge of the court in November that year.<ref name="SupremeCourtOfIndia"/>

===Supersession and resignation===
In April 1973, Shelat was the seniormost Supreme Court judge followed by A. N. Grover and [[K. S. Hegde]] who were superseded by Justice [[A. N. Ray]] in being named as the [[Chief Justice of India]]. This is partly attributed to their being on the side of the majority judgement in ''[[Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala]]'' which went against the government of the day.<ref name="Lexsite">{{Cite web |url=http://www.lexsite.com/services/network/scba/history.shtml |title=Long March of The Supreme Court Bar Association |website=www.lexsite.com |access-date=2017-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004035407/http://www.lexsite.com/services/network/scba/history.shtml |archive-date=4 October 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Both Hegde and Shelat resigned from the court at the end of that month while Grover did so a month later.

==Works==
* {{Cite book |title=[[Akbar]] |publisher=[[Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan]] |year=1964 |location=[[Bombay]] |pages=viii+396}}
* {{Cite book |title=[[Secularism]], Principles and Application |publisher=N. M. Tripathi Private Ltd. |year=1972 |location=Bombay |pages=xiv+144}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shelat, Jaishanker Manilal}}
[[Category:1908 births]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:Chief Justices of the Gujarat High Court]]
[[Category:Judges of the Bombay High Court]]
[[Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of India]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of London]]
[[Category:Elphinstone College alumni]]
[[Category:Year of death missing]]

Jaishanker Manilal Shelat - Revision history

>Kiranskumar at 13:04, 7 June 2021