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New Delhi: Justice Girish Thakorlal Nanavati, a former Supreme Court judge who probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the 2002 Godhra riots, died on Saturday.
He was 86 years old.
Family members said the former Supreme Court judge died of cardiac arrest at 1:15 pm on Saturday in Gujarat.
Born on February 17, 1935, Nanavati was enrolled as an advocate in the Bombay High Court on February 11, 1958.
He was appointed as a permanent judge of the Gujarat High Court with effect 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 with effect from January 31, 1994.
He was transferred as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court with effect from 28 September 1994. Nanavati was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court with effect from March 6, 1995, and retired on February 16, 2000.
Justice Nanavati and Justice Akshay Mehta submitted their final report on the 2002 riots in 2014 to Anandiben Patel, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat. More than 1,000 people, mainly from the minority community, were killed in the violence.
The commission was appointed in 2002 by the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi to investigate the riots that took place after two coaches of the Sabarmati Express train were torched near the Godhra railway station, in which 59 kar sevaks were killed.
Nanavati was appointed by the NDA government to investigate the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He was the only member of the Nanavati Commission.
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