Former Supreme Court judge Justice Girish Thakorlal Nanavati, who investigated the 1984 anti-Sikh and the 2002 Godhra riots, passed away on Saturday. He was 86.
The former Supreme Court judge died of a cardiac failure at 1:15 pm on Saturday in Gujarat, family members said.
Born on February 17, 1935, Nanavati was enrolled as an advocate in the Bombay High Court on February 11, 1958. He was appointed as permanent Judge of the Gujarat High Court from July 19, 1979, and transferred to the Orissa High Court on December 14, 1993.
Nanavati was appointed as the chief justice of the Orissa High Court on January 31, 1994. He was transferred as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court on September 28, 1994. Nanavati was appointed as judge of the Supreme Court with effect from March 6, 1995, and retired on February 16, 2000.
In 2014, Justices Nanavati and Akshay Mehta had submitted their final report on the 2002 riots to the then Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel. The commission was appointed in 2002 by the then chief minister Narendra Modi to probe the riots.
Nanavati was appointed by the NDA government to probe the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He was the sole member of the Nanavati commission.
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