Ahmedabad: Justice (Retd) G T Nanavati, former Supreme Court Judge who investigated Riot 2002 and 1984, died at Ahmedabad on Saturday.
He was 86.
His relatives said he died of a heart failure on Saturday afternoon.
He survived by two sons, both lawyers in Gujarat HC.
Nanavati was born in 1935 and registered as an advocate in the Bombay High Court in February 1958.
He increased as Judge Gujarat HC in 1979.
In 1993, he was transferred to Orissa HC, where he served as chairman of Justice.
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A year later, he was transferred to Karnataka HC as chairman of justice.
In 1995, he was promoted to the Supreme Court.
Nanavati retirement in 2000.
Immediately after his retirement, the NDA government in the center assigned him by investigating the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
He submitted his report in two volumes in 2005.
In March 2002, the Government of Modi in Gujarat appointed him as Chairman of the Commission Coach Sabarmati Express Sabarmati.
Before he joined the commission, it only had one member: justice (retd) kg Shah.
With his appointment as Chairman of the Commission, the Gujarat government widened the scope of the investigation into post-godhra riots.
Judge Shah died some time later and justice (retd) Akshay Mehta became a member of the commission.
The Commission submitted the final report on the riots in 2014 until then Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel.