A leading legal luminary from Karnataka, BV Acharya no stranger to knotty legal cases
A leading legal luminary from Karnataka, Acharya, 91, has been practising law for nearly seven decades. The five-time Karnataka advocate-general has represented the state before the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, guided implementation of Common Entrance Test policy for professional course selections, and was a special public prosecutor in the illegal wealth case allegedly involving J Jayalalithaa, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
Born on Dec 20, 1933, in Belpu village of Udupi taluk, Acharya completed schooling in Udupi and Mangalore before shifting to Madras University for BA and law degrees. He has practised all branches of law across the country from tahsildar court to Supreme Court.
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Enrolled as an advocate before the high court of Mysore in 1957, Acharya completed apprenticeship under B Gangadhar Das, a leading advocate in Mangalore. He served as additional public prosecutor in Mangalore for four years and as district government pleader, Dakshina Kannada, for five years.
In 1972, Acharya shifted to Karnataka high court in Bangalore, specialising in civil, criminal and constitutional matters. From 1973 to 1981, he was a member of Karnataka State Bar Council and elected chairman in 1979, serving until 1982. As chairman, he worked towards the establishment of National Law School of India University in Bangalore.
In May 1989, Karnataka high court made Acharya as a senior advocate. In December 1989, he was appointed advocate general of Karnataka, a post he was to hold four more times.
The veteran has appeared as a special public prosecutor before various commissions of inquiry such as the Justice Desai Commission on the Bangalore Gangaram building collapse, Veerappa Moily tape episode, and Justice Shiv Shankar Bhat's Commission regarding the Bangalore air crash.
His two children — Pushpalatha and BL Acharya — are practising law, while another son, Subramanya Acharya, works in a broadcasting organisation.
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