Justice R.S.Bachawat is probably best known today for his post-judiciary job of chairman of the Krishna and Godavari Water Disputes Tribunal. The scheme for sharing of waters that it recommended keeps coming up in relations between the southern states. But as is noted in Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1950-1989, a detailed compilation by American academic Professor George H.Gadbois of interviews and information on all the judges across four decades, Bachawat’s birth date was not 1 August, 1904, as is given in official records, but 18 July 1907.