Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela

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Hon'ble Justice
Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela
Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
Assumed office
15 Feb 2016
Chief Justice of Odisha High Court
In office
13 April 2015 – 14 Feb 2016
Preceded by Amitava Roy
Succeeded by Pradip Kumar Mohanty (acting)
Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court
In office
March 2013 – 12 April 2015
Preceded by K Shridhar Rao
Succeeded by Subhro Kamal Mukherjee (A)
Personal details
Born Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela
(1954-08-11) 11 August 1954 (age 69)
Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Citizenship Indian
Nationality  India
Alma mater Saurashtra University

Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela (born 11 August 1954)[1] is the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court[2] and former Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court[3] and Karnataka High Court.

Education and Legal practice

Justice Waghela stood first from Saurashtra University in General LLB as well as in Special LLB in 1974 and 1975, respectively. He took his masters degree in law in 1976-77.[4]

He started his own practice in 1978. He practised in the Labour and Industrial courts. In 1999, he was called to the bench and assumed his office as Additional Judge of the High Court of Gujarat on September 17, 1999.

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