Deepak Gupta (judge)

Justice Gupta was born in to a family of lawyers hailing from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. He did his schooling from St. Edward's School, Shimla. He started practicing in the Himachal Pradesh High court in 1978 after completing his LL.B. from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.[1][2]

He served as an advocate at the Himachal Pradesh High Court and was also the President of the Himachal Pradesh High Court Bar Association between 2002 and 2003. He took oath as a judge at the Himachal High Court on 4 October 2004. Justice Gupta served as the head of the court's green bench and also served as the Acting Chief Justice of the Himachal High Court twice in 2007. He was also the president of the Himachal Pradesh Judicial Academy and the Executive Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority.[3][4]

He took oath as the first Chief Justice of the newly formed Tripura High Court on 23 March 2013, in the process becoming the first judge from Himachal Pradesh to be directly appointed as the Chief Justice of another state. He was transferred to the Chhattisgarh High Court and was the sworn in as the Chief Justice on 16 May 2016.[3][5][6]

He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India and sworn in on 17 February 2017. On 5 June 2017, in an unprecedented situation, he heard and disposed of 33 cases on a single day; he held the court alone as his colleague Mohan Shantanagoudar, who was to head the bench reported unwell.[1][7] He was retired on 6 May 2020.