Born on 12th April 1952 at Nagpur to parents who were in the field of education, Justice R. C. Chavan completed his schooling at New English High School, Nagpur and Sanjeevan Vidyalaya, Panchgani, Satara District. Further he completed B.Sc. at the Institute of Science, Nagpur. Later while serving in the Reserve Bank Of India at Nagpur, he graduated law in the first Division from University of College of Law at Nagpur and did Master of Laws in the first division securing the highest number of marks, from the Department of Post Graduate teaching in Law at Nagpur University. He served for a term as a Contributory lecturer in the Department of Post Graduate teaching in Law at Nagpur University.
At the age of 24, he joined Judicial services as Civil Judge (Junior Division) and Judicial Magistrate First Class on 1st March 1976 and served in the Judiciary at various places in Maharashtra. While serving as judge, he also held honorary positions in judges Associations at state as well as national level. He has even worked as guest Faculty in Mussoorie at the Institute of Military Law and visited Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration for evaluation of performance of IAS probationers. He took keen interest and participated in conferences and seminars on Environmental Law, Environmental Economics, AIDS, Gender Justice and Arbitration. After having secured promotions in his service, Justice Chavan was elevated to the Bombay High Court on 22nd June 2005.
After his retirement as High Court Judge, he entered into the field of literature and authored two books “Cries in Wilderness” and “More Cries in Wilderness” expressing his candid views on various aspects of law and judiciary. He has recently authored a novel “Yes My Lords, It’s You In The Mirror”, which is a tale of four friends’ journey in Judiciary. Currently, he is working on his next literary title – “Who Killed Rule Of Law”.
