About Avinash Deobhakta
Lived 1936 – 2015 (aged 78). Avinash Deobhakta was a New Zealand lawyer.
Avinash Ganesh Deobhakta (24 November 1936 – 2 September 2015) was a New Zealand lawyer and jurist. He was the first person of Indian origin to be appointed a District Court judge in New Zealand.
Biography Born on 24 November 1936 in Lahore (then in British India, now in Pakistan), Deobhakta was educated in London, and then returned to Uganda. A lawyer, he rose to become the principal state attorney in the Ugandan Department of Public Prosecutions, and was later a chief magistrate. and became a naturalised New Zealander in 1978. He was also chair of the Waikeria District Prisons Board, and in 2002 was appointed to the New Zealand Parole Board as a northern region panel convenor. He died in Auckland on 2 September 2015.
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Who was Avinash Deobhakta?
New Zealand lawyer
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Avinash Deobhakta was born on 24 November 1936 in Lahore.
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Avinash Deobhakta died on 2 September 2015 in Auckland.
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Avinash Deobhakta was a lawyer.
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Avinash Deobhakta was New Zealand.
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