UCC on Gujarat table now, the head seat again goes to Justice (retd) Ranjana Desai

Other members of the sheet acceptable up by Gujarat see IAS (retd) CL Meena, Advocate RC Kodekar, educationist Dakshesh Thaker and societal idiosyncratic Geetaben Shroff.

Desai completed her Bachelor of Arts from the Elphinstone College successful Mumbai successful 1970 and her instrumentality grade from the Government Law College determination successful 1973, aft which she started retired arsenic a inferior successful the bureau of Justice S C Pratap of the Bombay High Court. Later, she got an accidental to look successful respective civilian and transgression matters. She besides worked with her begetter S G Samant, an eminent transgression lawyer.

Desai was appointed arsenic a Government Pleader astatine the Bombay High Court successful 1979. Subsequently, she was appointed arsenic a Special Public Prosecutor for preventive detention matters. In 1996, she was elevated to the High Court Bench and to the presumption of a Supreme Court Judge successful 2011.

After her status from the apex court, Desai was appointed arsenic the chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity successful 2014. In 2018, she became chairperson of the Advance Ruling Authority.

Desai besides headed the Delimitation Commission of India, whose last bid for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir recommended 7 further constituencies — six for Jammu and 1 for Kashmir — taking the full fig of seats successful the UT to 90 from 83 earlier. The panel’s decisions, which cleared the decks for the Assembly polls successful the UT, nevertheless were met with disapproval amongst mainstream parties successful the Valley.

Additionally, Desai served arsenic the chairperson of the Search Committee that was constituted to urge the sheet for information of the chairperson and members of the Lokpal.

A week ago, Uttarakhand became the archetypal authorities to instrumentality the UCC successful the country, a twelvemonth aft the Desai-led sheet submitted its report.