# Swatanter Kumar > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Swatanter_Kumar > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Swatanter_Kumar.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatanter_Kumar > Source revision: 1350649344 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Indian judge (born 1947)}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Swatanter Kumar | office = Chairperson of the [National Green Tribunal](/source/National_Green_Tribunal) | term_start = 20 December 2012 | term_end = 19 December 2017 | appointer = [Manmohan Singh](/source/Manmohan_Singh) | office1 = Judge of the [Supreme Court of India](/source/Supreme_Court_of_India) | term_start1 = 18 December 2009 | term_end1 = 19 December 2012 | appointer1 = [Pratibha Patil](/source/Pratibha_Patil) | nominator1 = [K. G. Balakrishnan](/source/K._G._Balakrishnan) | office2 = Chief Justice of the [Bombay High Court](/source/Bombay_High_Court) | term_start2 = 31 March 2007 | term_end2 = 17 December 2009 | appointer2 = [A. P. J. Abdul Kalam](/source/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam) | nominator2 = [K. G. Balakrishnan](/source/K._G._Balakrishnan) | office3 = Judge of the [Delhi High Court](/source/Delhi_High_Court) | term_start3 = 4 October 2004 | term_end3 = 30 March 2007 | appointer3 = [A. P. J. Abdul Kalam](/source/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam) | nominator3 = [Ramesh Chandra Lahoti](/source/Ramesh_Chandra_Lahoti) | office4 = Judge of the [Punjab and Haryana High Court](/source/Punjab_and_Haryana_High_Court) | term_start4 = 30 November 1994 | term_end4 = 3 October 2004 | appointer4 = [Shankar Dayal Sharma](/source/Shankar_Dayal_Sharma) | nominator4 = [Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi](/source/Aziz_Mushabber_Ahmadi) | office5 = Judge of the [Delhi High Court](/source/Delhi_High_Court) | term_start5 = 10 November 1994 | term_end5 = 29 November 1994 | appointer5 = [Shankar Dayal Sharma](/source/Shankar_Dayal_Sharma) | nominator5 = [Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi](/source/Aziz_Mushabber_Ahmadi) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1947|12|31}} }} '''Swatanter Kumar''' is a retired justice of the [Supreme Court of India](/source/Supreme_Court_of_India) and former chairperson of the [National Green Tribunal](/source/National_Green_Tribunal). He is also former chief justice of [Bombay High Court](/source/Bombay_High_Court) and judge of the [Delhi High Court](/source/Delhi_High_Court) and the [Punjab and Haryana High Court](/source/Punjab_and_Haryana_High_Court). ==Biography== Kumar enrolled as an [advocate](/source/advocate) with the Delhi Bar Council on 12 July 1971.[http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/sjud/swatanterkumar.htm Web site of Supreme Court of India][http://www.greentribunal.in/chairperson.php Chairman of Green Tribunal ] He practiced in various high courts, tribunals and the Supreme Court, and served as an additional district & sessions judge in the [Himachal Pradesh High Court](/source/Himachal_Pradesh_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 the Punjab and Haryana High Court 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 [Bombay High Court](/source/Bombay_High_Court) on 31 March 2007. Kumar's appointment to the Supreme Court by then President [Pratibha Patil](/source/Pratibha_Patil) was announced by the Law and Justice Ministry in December 2009.{{cite news |title=Swatanter Kumar appointed Supreme Court judge |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article66594.ece |work=[The Hindu](/source/The_Hindu) |date=17 December 2009 |accessdate=7 August 2010 }} He was appointed the chairperson of [National Green Tribunal](/source/National_Green_Tribunal_Act) on 20 December 2012 and retired on 20 December 2017.. He retired from his post on 20 December 2017 [http://moef.nic.in/assets/2967.pdf The Gazette of India][http://moef.nic.in/modules/recent-initiatives/NGT/ Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)]{{Cite news|url=http://www.india.com/news/agencies/ngt-chairperson-justice-swatanter-kumar-retires-2771589/|title=NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar retires|agency=Press Trust of india|date=2017-12-19|work=India.com|access-date=2017-12-19|language=en}} == Sexual harassment allegations == {{update section|date=March 2021}} In 2014, a law intern alleged that Kumar sexually harassed her.{{Cite web|date=April 20, 2019|title=These former Supreme Court judges faced sexual harassment allegations too|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/former-supreme-court-judges-sexual-harassment-allegations-1506238-2019-04-20|access-date=2020-08-02|website=India Today|language=en}} Justice Kumar said that the allegations were a part of a "malicious conspiracy to damage his reputation".{{Cite web|date=February 14, 2014|first=Dhananjay|last=Mahapatra|title=Sexual harassment charges a conspiracy: Justice Swatanter Kumar|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sexual-harassment-charges-a-conspiracy-Justice-Swatanter-Kumar/articleshow/30364030.cms|access-date=2020-08-02|website=The Times of India|language=en}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, Swatanter}} Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Indian judges Category:Chief justices of the Bombay High Court Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of India --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Swatanter Kumar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatanter_Kumar) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatanter_Kumar?action=history)). 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