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MU establishes MC Chagla Chair

Updated on: 21 February,2009 07:53 AM IST  | 
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The MC Chagla Memorial Trust held a function yesterday to commemorate the establishment of the MC Chagla Chair in Human Rights and Civil Liberties at the University of Mumbai.

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In Memory: Former chief justice Venkatachaliah (left) and current Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar. pic/rane ashish



Addressing the gathering, former chief justice Venkatachaliah said the late chief justice MC Chagla was a great nationalist for whom justice and liberty were abiding passions.


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Former attorney general Soli Sorabjee described Chagla as the "embodiment of justice on the chair who dispensed justice with a smile".

Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court Swatanter Kumar said, "If the common man was asked to define or connote civil liberties and human rights, he would take the name of Justice M C Chagla."
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