Chudalayil Thevan Ravikumar (born 6 January 1960) (Malayalam: ചുടലയിൽ തേവൻ രവികുമാർ) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

In 1990 he shifted his practice to High court and joined in the chambers of former Advocate General M K Damodaran, a doyen of the bar.

He was appointed as Additional Judge of Kerala High Court on 5 January 2009 and made permanent on 15 December 2010.

Ravikumar served as the Executive Chairman, Kerala State Legal Services Authority, which provides free legal aid services to the weaker sections of the society and also organises Lok Adalats for amicable settlement of disputes.

In 2014, Ravikumar created headlines when he refused to hear 50 petitions relating to renewal of licenses of 418 bars in different parts of the state filed by Bar Owners Association, saying that a lawyer connected with the case visited him at his residence to talk about the case.

"Law long but life is short", his judgment commented about the convoluted processes of criminal trial.

"Right to life means right to live with full human dignity, without humiliation and deprivation or degradation of any sort.

Thereafter, in 2016, the bench of Ravikumar and Jyothindranath in the case of L. Mini & Ors vs Gireeshkumar & Anr, in a motor vehicle claims appeal having regard to the concept of a welfare state, made the government liable to compensate the deceased or the injured vehicle owner.

It observed that the incomplete applications were due to technical glitches in the Public Service Commission’s website and not the fault of the candidates.

[citation needed] The bench of S. Manikumar, CK Abdul Rehim and Ravikumar in a suo moto case took note of the impact of national lockdown when it was first imposed.

[citation needed] A Division Bench of Ravikumar and M. Purushothaman in March 2021 in a suo motu case concerning the Travancore Devaswom Board noted that the virtual queue system of the Kerala police was resulting in under-utilisation of permitted number of pilgrims at Sabrimala.