Career
He joined Wellington-based Ombudsman Judge Anand Satyanand (later the Governor-General) whose parents are of Fiji Indian descent, and Judge Avinash Deobhakta, of the Auckland District Court, who is an Indian from Uganda, as judges of New Zealand who are of Indian origin. He was accorded the traditional Maori welcome by the ‘tangata whenua’. He was born in Labasa and studied at Labasa Secondary School, now renamed Labasa College.