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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2019}}'''Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar''' (14 March 1926 – 28 February 2004) was a former Chief Justice of Bombay and Madras High Court.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/references/ChandurkarMN.pdf|title=Full Court Conference|access-date=20 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/the-right-man-for-the-job/|title=The right man for the job|last=Chandrachud|first=Abhinav|date=19 May 2018|newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> He was born in a [[Mali|Brahmin]] family in Chandurbazar village, [[Amravati district]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|author=Prabhu Chawla |date=November 15, 1987 |title=Executive succeeds in having its way, imposes its will on the judiciary|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/19871115-executive-succeeds-in-having-its-way-imposes-its-will-on-the-judiciary-799516-1987-11-15|access-date=2022-01-15|magazine=India Today|language=en}}</ref> His father N.B. Chandurkar was a distinguished lawyer and a Sanskrit scholar.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Chandurkar was born in 1926. He studied in Somalwar Academy of [[Nagpur]] and [[Hislop College]]. He passed Law from the [[University of Nagpur]]. Chandurkar enrolled as an Advocate and started practice in the Nagpur High Court in 1954 on Civil, Criminal and Tax matters. He was appointed in the post of Additional Judge of the [[Bombay High Court]] on 28 October 1967. In 1968 he became a permanent judge. Justice Chandurkar was elevated in the post of Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on 2 January 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/jshowpuisne.php?auth=amdldGlkPTE2NyZwYWdlbm89MTc=|title=MR. M.N. Chandurkar|access-date=20 December 2018}}</ref> He was transferred to the [[Madras High Court]] and served there as the Chief Justice from 2 April 1984 to 13 March 1988.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cjlist.html|title=The former Chief Justices|access-date=20 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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