Ranjana Desai

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Ranjana Desai
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office
13 September 2011 – 29 October 2014
Personal details
Born (1949-10-30) 30 October 1949 (age 74)
Spouse(s) Prakash Desai

Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai is former judge of the Supreme Court of India.[1] She served as a Judge of Supreme Court of India from 13 September 2011 to 29 October 2014. Now, she has been appointed as Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity and assumed the charge on 1 December 2014.

Early life

She was born on 30 October 1949 to criminal lawyer S. G. Samant.

She completed her Bachelor of Arts from the Elphinstone College in 1970 and Bachelor of Laws from the Government Law College, Bombay in 1973.

Judge of the Bombay High Court

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Notable judgements

On 27 September 2013, in a landmark judgement, a three-judge bench consisting of the Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan Gogoi of the Supreme Court of India ruled that the right to register a "none of the above" vote in elections should apply. The court said that Negative voting would lead to systemic change in polls and political parties will be forced to project clean candidates.[2] The Election Commission has said that the judgement will be implemented immediately.[3][4]

References

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