Alak Chandra Gupta (1 January 1917 – 7 November 2000) was a judge of the

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Career

Gupta studied in

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Mitra Institution and

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. He passed M.A.,

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from the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

. He was enrolled as an advocate on 31 August 1945 and started practice in Civil, Criminal and Constitutional matters at the

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. In 1964 he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Calcutta High Court. Justice Gupta became a permanent judge of that high court on 24 February 1966. He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India in 1974. In his tenure he was the Chairman of Maruti Commission on the allegations against

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. Justice Gupta retired on 1 January 1982.

References

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