Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasanthakumar (born 15 March 1955) is from

Palliyadi Palliyadi is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Tamil is the official language spoken; It has been a centre of life for many centuries and have been predominantly occupied by wealthy aristocrat Christian N ...

, Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, India and was the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. He retired on 14 March 2017. He was appointed an additional judge of High Court of Madras in December 2005 and permanent judge on 20 April 2007. He took oath as the chief justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir in February 2015.

Career

He was enrolled as an Advocate in the year 1980 and was Junior to Late Mr. T. Martin. He was given an honorary post of member in Ecclesiastical Synod Courts, C.S.I. Specialist in Service Law,

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and Education matters. He held the post of Senior Standing Counsel for Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission and also Standing Counsel for Central Government. In 2005, he was appointed Additional Judge of High Court of Madras and in 2007 Permanent Judge. During his term in the

High Court of Madras The High Court of Judicature at Madras is a High Court located in Chennai, India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is one of the oldest high courts of India along with Calcutt ...

, he delivered judgements on several important legal issues.

Notable Judgments

Some important judgements pronounced by Justice Vasanthakumar include statutory prohibition for failing a student and retaining (him) in the same standard, refusing permission for

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ing in hilly areas, and making it compulsory for banks to provide loans to students for educational purposes.

References

Living people 1955 births 20th-century Indian judges People from Kanyakumari district Judges of the Madras High Court Chief justices of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court {{india-law-bio-stub