Dipankar Datta (born 9 February 1965) is a Judge of
Supreme Court of India
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Bombay High Court
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Calcutta High Court
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.
Early life and education
Datta was born in 1965 in a
Bengali
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family. He came from a family with legal background. His father late Salil Kumar Datta, was a former Judge of the
Calcutta High Court
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. His brother in law Justice
Amitava Roy
Amitava Roy (born 1 March 1953) is the retired judge of the Supreme Court of India and former Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court and Rajasthan High Court. He is also a puisne judge of the Gauhati High Court.Hazra Law College,
University of Calcutta
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. He was in the first batch of 5 years Law course in the year 1989.
Career
After completing his LL.B. he was enrolled as an Advocate on 16 November 1989. He started practising at the High Court at Calcutta and worked as a state panel lawyer also. He also practised at the
Supreme Court of India
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and other High Courts at other states in India. He has specialized in Constitutional matters and Civil cases. Datta was the Counsel for the Union of India since 1998. He had appeared on behalf of the School Education Department,
University of Calcutta
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, West Bengal Board in Secondary Education and the West Bengal School Service Commission. He was the Junior Standing Counsel for the
State of West Bengal
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from 16 May 2002 to 16 January 2004. Datta was a Guest Lecturer in the Hazra Law College from the year 1996–1997 to 1999–2000. He was elevated to the Bench of the High Court at Calcutta as a permanent Judge on 22 June 2006.
On 23 April 2020, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of
Bombay High Court
The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the ...
and took oath on 28 April 2020. He was elevated as a Judge of
Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India (IAST: ) is the supreme judicial authority of India and is the highest court of the Republic of India under the constitution. It is the most senior constitutional court, has the final decision in all legal matters ...