Jaishanker Manilal Shelat

Jaishanker Manilal Shelat (16 July 1908 – 1 November 1985) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from February 1966 to April 1973. Before that, he served as the third Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat from May 1963 till his elevation to the Supreme Court.

Education Shelat initially studied at Jubilee Institution in Umreth. He got his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay. Later, he went to King's College and the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London where he submitted his thesis on "Criticism and defence of the constitution of the Senate of the United States of America during the campaign for ratification 1787-1789."

Career He joined the Bar at Inner Temple in 1933 and shifted to India soon after. Shelat became a Judge at the Bombay City Civil Court and an Additional Sessions Judge for Greater Bombay in September 1948. He was appointed an Additional Judge of the High Court of Bombay in January 1957 and made a Permanent Judge of the court in November that year. Both Hegde and Shelat resigned from the court at the end of that month while Grover did so a month later.

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