Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta

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Hon'ble Justice
Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta
Lokayukta, Sikkim
Assumed office
18 May 2015
Chief Justice Andhra Pradesh High Court
In office
21 May 2013 – 6 May 2015
Judge Calcutta High Court
In office
17 July 1997 – 18 November 2012
Judge High Court of Uttarakhand
In office
18 November 2012 – 20 May 2013
Personal details
Born7 May 1953
Baidyapur, Tenya, Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India
CitizenshipIndian
Nationality India

Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta (born 7 May 1953) is the Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court and Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He has been the Chief Justice since 21 May 2013.[1]

Career

Sengupta was enrolled as an advocate on 21 April 1981. He practised in the Calcutta High Court in Civil, Constitutional, Criminal matters and Arbitration matters. He was appointed a permanent Judge of the Calcutta High Court in 1997. He used to work as acting Chief Justice at Calcutta High Court.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://hc.tap.nic.in/aphc/kjsgj.html
  2. ^ "Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta is new Chief Justice of the AP high court". The Times of India. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2014.