Sunil Kumar Sinha (born 7 July 1954) is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of the

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Career

Sinha was born at Ambikapur in 1954 in a lawyer family. He studied in Government Multipurpose Higher Secondary School, Ambikapur and passed

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. in 1980 from Government P.G. College of Ambikapur. He was enrolled as an advocate under

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Bar Council on 3 September 1980. Initially he started practice in District Court of Ambikapur, later in the

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. In May 2003 Sinha was appointed an Additional Advocate General of

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. On 1 December, 2004 he became the permanent Judge of the

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. On 14 July 2014 Sinha was transferred as a judge of the Sikkim High Court and on 30 March 2015 he was elevated to the post of the Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinha, Sunil Kumar 1954 births Living people Indian judges Chief Justices of the Sikkim High Court Judges of the Sikkim High Court Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court 20th-century Indian judges 20th-century Indian lawyers People from Ambikapur, India