Hemant Gupta
Hemant Gupta is a Judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is also former Judge of Patna High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court. He will retire on 16 October 2022.Career
Justice Gupta enrolled as an advocate on July 1980 and started practise in the District Court of Chandigarh. He entered in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana and worked on Civil, Labour, Company and Constitutional matters. In 1997 he was appointed as 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 on 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 as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 18 March 2017. In November 2018 he became Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
