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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Former Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court (2006-2008)}}<br />
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| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable|Hon'ble Chief Justice (Retd.)]]<br />
| name = Muthusamy Karpaga Vinayagam<br />
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| office = Chairperson of [[Appellate Tribunal for Electricity]]<br />
| term_start = 14 November 2008<br />
| term_end = 13 November 2011<br />
| appointer = [[Pratibha Patil]]<br />
| predecessor = Anil Dev Singh<br />
| term_start1 = 1 December 2011<br />
| term_end1 = 30 November 2014<br />
| appointer1 = Pratibha Patil<br />
| successor1 = [[Ranjana Desai]]<br />
| office2 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Jharkhand High Court|5th Chief Justice]] of [[Jharkhand High Court]]<br />
| term_start2 = 17 September 2006<br />
| term_end2 = 15 May 2008<br />
| nominator2 = [[Y. K. Sabharwal]]<br />
| appointer2 = [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]<br />
| predecessor2 = {{ubl|[[Nelavoy Dhinakar]]|[[M. Y. Eqbal]] ''(acting)''}}<br />
| successor2 = {{ubl|[[Gyan Sudha Misra]]|[[M. Y. Eqbal]] ''(acting)''}}<br />
| office3 = Judge of [[Madras High Court]]<br />
| term_start3 = 8 January 1996<br />
| term_end3 = 16 September 2006<br />
| nominator3 = [[A. M. Ahmadi]]<br />
| appointer3 = [[S. D. Sharma]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1946|05|16}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Devakottai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]<br />
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| education = [[B.A.]] in Economics and [[LL.B]]<br />
| alma_mater = Alagappa University, [[Madras Law College]]<br />
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'''Muthusamy Karpaga Vinayagam''' (born 16 May 1946) is a retired Indian judge, Tamil scholar and former Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Vinayagam was born in 1946 at [[Devakottai]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in a family with legal background. He passed B.A. in [[Economics]] in 1969 from Alagappa University and got [[LL.B]]. degree from the [[Madras Law College]] in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aptel.gov.in/members/Karpaga.html|title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.Karpaga Vinayagam|access-date=24 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Vinayagam got enrolled himself as an advocate in the [[Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry|Bar Council of Tamil Nadu]] in the year 1972 and started practice as a Criminal side Advocate in the [[Madras High Court]]. He appeared as the Government Counsel in the High Court for seven years consecutively. In 1993 he became the Editor of the [[Delhi]]-based law journal Current Criminal Report. Vinayagam was elevated as a Judge in the Madras High Court in 1996. He was appointed the Chief Justice of [[Jharkhand High Court]] on 17 September 2006.<br />
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Apart from his judicial career Justice Vinayagam has immense knowledge on Classical and ancient [[Tamil language]]. He wrote a book on Criminal Law in the Ancient Period.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in/hon’ble-mr-justice-mkarpaga-vinayagam|title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.Karpaga Vinayagam|access-date=24 December 2018}}</ref> After the retirement, he practiced in the [[Supreme Court of India]] as senior advocate.<br />
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In November 2008<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/Karpaga-Vinayagam-is-power-appellate-tribunal-chief/article15336939.ece|title=Karpaga Vinayagam is power appellate tribunal chief|date=7 November 2008|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> Vinayagam was appointed to the post of the Chairperson of the [[Appellate Tribunal for Electricity]], [[New Delhi]] and reappointed in 2011<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/justice-m-karpaga-vinayagam-was-reappointed-chairperson-of-appellate-tribunal-1322637503-1|title=Justice M. Karpaga Vinayagam was reappointed Chairperson of Appellate Tribunal|access-date=24 December 2018}}</ref> to serve their till 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aptel.gov.in/en|title=Home {{!}} APPELLATE TRIBUNAL FOR ELECTRICITY|access-date=23 January 2026|website=Appellate tribunal for electricity}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Tamil scholars]]<br />
[[Category:People from Sivaganga district]]<br />
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