(UNI) Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta has been appointed as the new chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court.
Sources said Justice Sengupata is to be sworn in on May 21 when Governor ESL Narasimhan will administer the oath of office to him at the Raj Bhavan.
The sources added that President Pranab Mukherjee had approved the appointment of Justice Sengupta as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and it was communicated to the state government by the Union Law Ministry.
Justice Sengupta began his career as a lawyer at the Calcutta High Court in the 1970s and rose to become a judge there.
He was born on May 7, 1953, and enrolled as an advocate on April 21, 1981. He practised as a High Court advocate in civil, criminal and constitutional matters.
He was appointed as a permanent judge of the Calcutta High Court on July 17, 1997, and assumed charge as acting chief justice on October 5, 2012.
He was transferred to the Uttarakhand High Court on October 18. Currently, Justice Sengupta is the second senior-most judge of the Uttarakhand High Court. UNI
