Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar


Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar is a Judge of the Supreme Court of India and the former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court and Himachal Pradesh High Court.

Career

He was enrolled as Advocate on 10 February 1982. He practiced on Civil, Criminal and Constitutional sides before the Subordinate Courts, Tribunals and High Court of Judicature at Bombay on the Appellate side and Original side. He also practiced exclusively in the Supreme Court of India from July 1984. He was appointed as Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on 29 March 2000 and confirmed as permanent Judge on 8 April 2002.
He was appointed as Chief Justice of the High court of Himachal Pradesh on 4 April 2013. Thereafter he was appointed as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 24 November 2013. Elevated to Supreme Court on 13 May 2016.