Hemant Gupta
{{Short description|Indian judge (born 1957)}}
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| office = Judge of the Supreme Court of India
| term_start = 2 November 2018
| term_end = 16 October 2022
| nominator = Ranjan Gogoi
| appointer = Ram Nath Kovind
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| office2 = Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court
| term_start2 = 18 March 2017
| term_end2 = 1 November 2018
| nominator2 = Jagdish Singh Khehar
| appointer2 = Pranab Mukherjee
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| office3 = Judge of the Patna High Court
| termstart3 = 8 February 2016
| termend3 = 17 March 2017
| nominator3 = T. S. Thakur
| appointer3 = Pranab Mukherjee|
| office4 = Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
| termstart4 = 2 July 2002
| termend4 = 7 February 2016
| nominator4 = Bhupinder Nath Kirpal
| appointer4 = Kocheril Raman Narayanan
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Hemant Gupta (born 17 October 1957) is a former judge of Supreme Court of India. He is also a former chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and judge of the Patna High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court. He retired on 16 October 2022.
Career
Gupta enrolled as an advocate in July 1980 and started practice 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 additional advocate general of Punjab and elevated as a judge of High Court of Punjab and Haryana on 2 July 2002. Gupta was transferred to the Patna High Court in February 2016,{{Cite web|url=http://patnahighcourt.gov.in/Judges_Dtl.aspx?ID=MzA4-MfXtvxacRYk%3D|title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice Hemant Gupta|access-date=29 October 2018}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/hemant-gupta-takes-oath-as-chief-justice-of-madhya-pradesh-hc/articleshow/57709397.cms|title=Hemant Gupta takes oath as chief justice of Madhya Pradesh HC|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|access-date=29 October 2018}} He was appointed the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 18 March 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://mphc.gov.in/honble-judges|title=High Court of Madhya Pradesh|website=mphc.gov.in|access-date=29 October 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.livelaw.in/tag/chief-justice-of-madhya-pradesh-high-court/|title=Topic: Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court.|access-date=29 October 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/madhya-pradesh/madhya-pradesh-high-court-chief-justice-sworn-in_1987760.html|title=Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Justice sworn in|website=zeenews.india.com|access-date=29 October 2018}} On 2 November 2018, he became a judge of the Supreme Court of India.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/hemant-gupta-ajay-rastogi-mr-shah-r-subhash-reddy-are-new-judges-of-supreme-court-1941540|title=Four High Court Chief Justices Elevated As New Supreme Court Judges|agency=PTI|date=1 November 2018|publisher=NDTV|access-date=7 June 2019}} He was retired on 16 October 2022.
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