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C. V. Karthikeyan
C. V. Karthikeyan, Judge, High Court of Madras
Born	Karthikeyan 1964 (age 59–60) Chennai, India
Occupation	Judge
Known for	Member, TNSJA
Title	Member of TNSJA of Madras High Court
Board member of	Member, TNSJA
Spouse	(married )
Parents	C. V. Simharaja Sastri Smt. Saraswathi S Satri
Website	www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cvkj.html

Honorable Thiru. C. V. Karthikeyan is a sitting Judge of the Madras High Court and one of the Members of the Board of Governors of the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy. He was appointed Additional Judge, High Court of Madras on 6 October 2016.

Early life

Justice C. V. Karthikeyan was born on 14 December 1964. His parents are Sri. C. V. Simharaja Sastri and Smt. Saraswathi S Sastri. Justice Karthikeyan's initial schooling was at St. Joseph's Presentation Convent, Rayapuram, Chennai. Later, Justice Karthikeyan had completed High School from St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Armenian Street, Chennai and Higher Secondary from Hindu Senior Secondary School, Triplicane, Chennai. He is a sixth-generation member of the Calamur Viravalli family, known for its preeminence in law and intellectual pursuits: he is the fourth Calamur Viravalli after his great-grandfather Diwan Bahadur C. V. Viswanatha Sastri and his great-uncles Diwan Bahadur Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri and Sachottivama Diwan Bahadur Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer to serve on the Madras High Court or before in a state function (with Sir C.P. having declined a seat on the Court but accepted appointment as Advocate-General. Concurrently, his cousin the Honourable C. V. N. Sastri serves on the Telangana High Court, having previously served on the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

Other legal luminaries in his line include C. V. Runganada Sastri, C. V. Sundara Sastri, C. Aryama Sundaram, C. V. Nagaraja Sastri, and C. R. Pattabhiraman, as well as adopted members P. Anandacharlu. Beyond jurisprudence and the law, further Calamur kin include professors of Indian art and culture Calambur Sivaramamurti, geology, Calamur Mahadevan, Sanskrit and Indian literature, C. Sundara Sastri, nuclear physics and engineering M.R. Srinivasan, chemistry and chemical engineering C. V. Seshadri Iyer, culture and archaeology Sharada Srinivasan, and China-and-Russia foreign policy expert Ambassador C. V. Ranganathan, in addition to V. N. Viswanatha Rao and Bharati Krishna Tirtha. Predominantly Vadadeśa Vadama Iyer Brahmins from North Arcot, the family descends from celebrated saint and philosopher Appayya Dikshita and poet Nilakantha Dikshita The broader family further includes pioneering Civil Judge C. R. Pattabhirama Iyer, High Court advocates K. Krishna Kurup and T. C. Narayana Kurup, V. K. Krishna Menon, Travancore and Cochin High Court jurist and Prime Minister of both states (as well as Calicut) Palakkad Raman Menon, and geopolitics professor V. A. Janaki.