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'''Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar''' or '''M. P. Thakkar''' (born 4 November 1923, date of death unknown) was a judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]], and Chairman of Twelfth [[Law Commission of India]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Thakkar was born in [[Burma]], [[British India]] in 1923. He studied in [[National High School, Basavanagudi]] and B.E.T. High School at [[Rangoon]]. He passed [[LL.B]] from Sir [[L.A. Shah Law College]] of [[Ahmedabad]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sirlashah.org/Alumni.aspx|title=Alumni|access-date=31 October 2018|archive-date=23 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023195948/http://www.sirlashah.org/Alumni.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> After his enrollment as an advocate he started practice in the Indian High Courts in 1948.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
Thakkar practised on Civil, Criminal, Income-Tax, Industrial Disputes and Company matters before the then Saurashtra High Court at [[Rajkot]] and [[Bombay High Court]].{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} He worked in the [[Gujarat High Court]] since 1960 to 1963.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} He was appointed the Judge in City Civil and Sessions Court on 23 January 1963. Thakkar also served as Special Judge and Additional Judge in the Gujarat High Court.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} He became the Permanent Judge of the same High Court on 27 November 1973. Thakkar was elevated to the post of Chief Justice, Gujarat High Court on 20 August 1981.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=M.+P.+Thakkar&pg=PT247|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|last=George H. Gadbois Jr.|date=2 May 2011|isbn=9780199088386|access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://legal.gujarat.gov.in/chief_justice.htm|title=Chief Justice of Gujarat|access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref> He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of India in March 1983.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://164.100.107.37/judges/bio/54_mpthakkar.htm|title=Former Judges|access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref> He was the head of the investigating Thakkar Commission for the [[Assassination of Indira Gandhi]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/28/world/india-releases-stinging-report-on-gandhi-s-death.html|title=India Releases Stinging Report on Gandhi's Death|last=Hazarika|first=Sanjoy|date=28 March 1989|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVTMqlezIrwC&q=M.+P.+Thakkar+died+on&pg=PA41|title=Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab|last=Volume 1|first=Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab|year=2003|isbn=9789993353577|access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Later life==<br />
After his retirement, Justice Thakkar was appointed Chairman of Twelfth Law Commission of India in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/main.htm|title=POST-INDEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENTS|website=lawcommissionofindia.nic.in|access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/19881115-fresh-strain-on-an-already-weakened-law-commission-797886-1988-11-15|title=Fresh strain on an already weakened Law Commission|website=indiatoday.in|access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref> Thakkar is deceased.<ref>[https://indiatogether.org/adalat-human-rights Crippling Lok Adalats]</ref><ref>[https://ghconline.gov.in/library/document/conference2728072018/III5Technology,%20Ethics%20and%20Access%20to%20Justice.pdf Technology, Ethics, and Access to Justice: Should an Algorithm be Deciding Your Case? (2014)]</ref><br />
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