Hemant Gupta
Hon'ble Justice Hemant Gupta | |
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Judge of Supreme Court of India | |
Assumed office 2 November 2018 | |
Nominated by | Ranjan Gogoi |
Appointed by | Ram Nath Kovind |
Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court | |
In office 18 March 2017 – 1 November 2018 | |
Nominated by | Jagdish Singh Khehar |
Appointed by | Pranab Mukherjee |
Judge of Patna High Court | |
In office 8 February 2016 – 17 March 2017 | |
Nominated by | T. S. Thakur |
Appointed by | Pranab Mukherjee |
Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court | |
In office 2 July 2002 – 7 February 2016 | |
Nominated by | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal |
Appointed by | Kocheril Raman Narayanan |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 October 1957 |
Hemant Gupta (born 17 October 1957) is a Judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is also former Judge of Patna High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court. He will retire on 16 October 2022.
Career[]
Justice Gupta enrolled as an advocate on July 1980 and started practise in the District Court of Chandigarh. He entered in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana and worked on Civil, Labour, Company and Constitutional matters. In 1997 he was appointed as Additional Advocate General of Punjab and elevated as a Judge of High Court of Punjab and Haryana on 2 July 2002. Justice Gupta was transferred to the Patna High Court on February 2016,[1] thereafter took over the charge of acting chief justice of the Patna High Court after the retirement of Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari on 29 October 2016.[2] He was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 18 March 2017.[3][4][5] In November 2018 he became Justice of the Supreme Court of India.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Hon'ble Mr. Justice Hemant Gupta". Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Hemant Gupta takes oath as chief justice of Madhya Pradesh HC". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "High Court of Madhya Pradesh". mphc.gov.in. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Topic: Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court". Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Justice sworn in". zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Four High Court Chief Justices Elevated As New Supreme Court Judges". NDTV. PTI. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Chief Justices of the Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Judges of the Patna High Court
- Judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
- 20th-century Indian judges
- 21st-century Indian judges
- Justices of the Supreme Court of India