Ferdino Rebello is an Indian

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 jurist, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court

Allahabad High Court

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, former judge of the Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court at Mumbai, Maharashtra, is the High Court of India with jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra & Goa, and, the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli...

, and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu. He received an LL.B.

Bachelor of Laws

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 from the Government Law College, Mumbai

Government Law College, Mumbai

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 and thereafter practiced in the High Court of Bombay at Goa. He also was a lecturer in law at the Salgaonkar Law College from 1975-1977. He was president of the Goa High Court Bar Association from 1884 to 1996 and was designated a Senior Advocate in 1995.. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Goa in 1977 on a Janta Party ticket.. In 1989, he contested and lost Parliamentary elections on a Janata Party

Janata Party

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 ticket to Eduardo Falerio and has been inactive in politics ever since.