Swatanter Kumar is a retired justice of the

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and former chairperson of the

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. He is also former chief justice of

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and judge of the

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and the

Punjab and Haryana High Court Punjab and Haryana High Court is the common High Court for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh based in Chandigarh, India. Sanctioned strength of Judges of this High Court is 85 consisting of 64 Pe ...

Biography

Kumar enrolled as an

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with the Delhi Bar Council on 12 July 1971.Web site of Supreme Court of India
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/ref> He practiced in various high courts, tribunals and the Supreme Court, and served as an additional district & sessions judge in the

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High Court from February, 1983 till his resignation in October 1983, and thereafter resumed practice at New Delhi. He was appointed an additional judge of the Delhi High Court on 10 November 1994, transferred to P&H on 30 November 1994, and was appointed a permanent judge on 30 November 1995. He transferred to Delhi on 4 October 2004 and was appointed Chief Justice of the

on 31 March 2007. The appointment of Kumar to the Supreme Court by then President

Pratibha Patil Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born 19 December 1934), also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woman to become the president of India. A m ...

was announced by the Law and Justice Ministry in December 2009. He was appointed the chairperson of

on 20 December 2012 and retired on 20 December 2017.. He retired from his post on 20 December 201
The Gazette of India
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Sexual harassment allegations

In 2014, a law intern alleged that Kumar sexually harassed her. Justice Kumar said that these allegations are a part of a "malicious conspiracy to damage his reputation".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, Swatanter 1947 births Living people 20th-century Indian judges Chief justices of the Bombay High Court Justices of the Supreme Court of India