Hemant Gupta (born 17 October 1957) is a former

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. He is also former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court and

of Patna High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court. He retired on 16 October 2022.

Career

Justice Gupta enrolled as an advocate in July 1980 and started practice in the District Court of Chandigarh. He entered in the

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and worked on Civil, Labour, Company and Constitutional matters. In 1997 he was appointed 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 in February 2016, 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. He was appointed the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 18 March 2017. On 2 November 2018, he became

of the

. He was retired on 16 October 2022.

References

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