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{{Short description|Judge of the Supreme Court of India}}
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| name = Krishnan Vinod Chandran
| honorific_prefix = Hon'ble Mr. Justice
| image = [[File: Justice K. V. Chandran.jpg|alt|250px]]
| caption = Official Portrait 2025
| office = [[Judge]] of [[Supreme Court of India]]
| term_start = 16 January 2025
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| appointer = [[Droupadi Murmu]]
| nominator = [[Sanjiv Khanna]]
| office1 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Patna High Court|44th Chief Justice]] of [[Patna High Court]]
| term_start1 = 29 March 2023
| term_end1 = 15 January 2025
| appointer1 = [[Droupadi Murmu]]
| nominator1 = [[Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud]]
| predecessor1 = {{ubl|[[Sanjay Karol]]|[[Chakradhari Sharan Singh|C. S. SIngh]] {{small|(Acting)}}}}
| office2 = [[Judge]] of [[Kerala High Court]]
| term_start2 = 8 November 2011
| term_end2 = 28 March 2023
| appointer2 = [[Pratibha Patil]]
| nominator2 = [[S. H. Kapadia]]
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| alma_mater = [[Kerala Law Academy]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|4|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[North Paravur]], [[Kerala]]
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| website = [https://www.sci.gov.in/judge/justice-k-vinod-chandran/ Supreme Court of India]
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| successor1 = {{ubl|[[Vipul Manubhai Pancholi]]|[[Ashutosh Kumar]] {{small|(Acting)}}}}
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'''Krishnan Vinod Chandran''' is a [[judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref name="R1">{{cite web|url=https://hckerala.gov.in/judges.php|title=Official|via=Official website High Court of Kerala|work=hckerala.gov.in|date=|access-date=12 Nov 2021}}</ref><ref name="R2">{{cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2011/nov/06/four-advocates-appointed-hc-judges-307323.html|title=Four advocates appointed HC Judges|via=New Indian Express News|work=newindianexpress.com|date=6 Nov 2011|access-date=12 Nov 2021}}</ref><ref name="R3">{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/policy/Four-Additional-Judges-appointed-to-Kerala-High-Court/article20358111.ece|title=Four Additional Judges appointed to Kerala High Court|via=The Hindu Business Line News|work=thehindubusinessline.com|date=8 Nov 2011|access-date=12 Nov 2021}}</ref><ref name="R4">{{cite web|url=https://www.babushahi.com/punjabi/archive-news.php?id=4136|title=4 Additional Judges Appointed to the Kerala High Court|via=Babushahi News|work=babushahi.com|date=8 Nov 2011|access-date=12 Nov 2021}}</ref> He previously served as the 44th [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Patna High Court]] and as a [[judge]] of [[Kerala High Court]].

==Career==
After graduating from the [[Union Christian College, Aluva]], Vinod Chandran was employed at the [[State Bank of Travancore]] in [[Kochi]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Justice K Vinod Chandran takes oath as Supreme Court judge, to have a tenure of over 3 years |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/justice-k-vinod-chandran-supreme-court-judge-9781871/ |work=The Indian Express |date=16 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> During his stint at the bank, he enrolled as a law student at the [[Kerala Law Academy|Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram]], and started his practice at Paravoor in the year 1991 and later extended to the High Court of Kerala. During his practice he served as Special Government Pleader (Taxes) of the Government of Kerala from 2007 to 2011.

Vinod Chandran was elevated as an Additional [[Judge]] of the [[Kerala High Court]] on 8 November 2011 and was made permanent on 24 June 2013.<ref name="R2"/><ref name="R3"/> He was appointed as [[Chief Justice]] of [[Patna High Court]] on 29 March 2023. He also served as the chancellor of the [[Chanakya National Law University]] ex officio in such capacity. On 1 August 2023, [[Patna High Court]]'s division bench, comprising Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Justice Partha Sarathy, gave judgement that holding a [[Bihar caste-based survey 2023|caste survey in Bihar]] is valid and legal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/patna-high-court-holds-caste-survey-in-bihar-as-valid-and-legal-dismisses-all-petitions-challenging-survey/articleshow/102305338.cms|title=Patna high court holds caste survey in Bihar as valid and legal, dismisses all petitions challenging survey}}</ref> The division bench passed the order in its 101-page verdict <ref>{{cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/1053861/why-the-patna-high-court-upheld-bihars-caste-survey|title=Why the Patna High Court upheld Bihar's caste survey}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2023-08/15ace660-13fc-46e6-b819-4b5cb2e085c2/Youth_for_Equality___Ors_v_State_of_Bihar___Ors.pdf|title=IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/high-courts-green-signal-to-bihar-caste-survey-challenged-in-supreme-court-4265860|title=High Court's Green Signal To Bihar Caste Survey Challenged In Supreme Court}}</ref> while dismissing all petitions challenging the survey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/patna-news/hc-upholds-bihar-caste-survey-101690904344728.html|title=HC upholds Bihar caste survey}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-law/patna-hc-upholds-bihar-caste-based-survey-8873561/|title=Patna HC upholds Bihar caste-based survey: Why it was challenged, what the court said}}</ref>

On 16 January 2025, he took oath as a [[Judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of India]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://highcourtofkerala.nic.in High Court of Kerala]

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