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Sujoy Paul

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Hon'ble Chief Justice
Sujoy Paul
44th Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
In office
16 January 2026 – 20 June 2026
Nominated bySurya Kant
Appointed byDroupadi Murmu
Preceded by
Succeeded byTapabrata Chakraborty (acting)
Judge of Calcutta High Court
In office
18 July 2025 – 15 January 2026
Acting CJ: 8 October 2025 – 15 January 2026
Nominated byB. R. Gavai
Appointed byDroupadi Murmu
Judge of Telangana High Court
In office
26 March 2024 – 17 July 2025
Nominated byD. Y. Chandrachud
Appointed byDroupadi Murmu
Acting Chief Justice
In office
21 January 2025 – 17 July 2025
Appointed byDroupadi Murmu
Preceded byAlok Aradhe
Succeeded by
Judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court
In office
27 May 2011 – 25 March 2024
Nominated byS. H. Kapadia
Appointed byPratibha Patil
Personal details
Born (1964-06-21) 21 June 1964
EducationL.L.B
Rani Durgavati University

Sujoy Paul (born 21 June 1964) is a retired Indian judge, who served as 44th Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court in 2026.[1] He is former judge of High courts of Calcutta, Telangana[2] and Madhya Pradesh. He also served as acting Chief Justice of Calcutta[3] and Telangana High Courts.[4]

Early life

Justice Paul was born on 21 June 1964 to Late Noni Gopal Paul and Manjushri Paul. He completed his school education in Pandit L.S. Jha Model Higher Secondary School and did his Graduation, Post Graduation and LL.B from Rani Durgavati University at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.

He enrolled as Advocate with the Bar Council of Madhya Pradesh in 1990 and actively practiced in civil, constitutional, industrial and service and other branches of Law and appeared before various courts.

Career

He was elevated as Additional Judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur on 27 May 2011 and was confirmed as permanent Judge on 14 April 2014.

He was transferred to Telangana High Court on his request to get transferred from Madhya Pradesh High Court as his son was practising in the Madhya Pradesh High Court.[5][6] He took oath as Judge of Telangana High Court on 26 March 2024.[7] He was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Telangana High Court on 21 January 2025 consequent upon the transfer of the then chief justice Alok Aradhe to Bombay High Court.[4]

He was transferred to Calcutta High Court on 18 July 2025[8] and became its acting chief justice on 8 October 2025.[9]

As Calcutta Chief justice

On 9 January 2026, Supreme court collegium led by CJI Surya Kant recommended him to be appointed as chief justice of Calcutta High Court.[10] Government cleared his appointment on 14 January 2026[11] and he took oath as chief justice on 16 January 2026.

His tenure as chief justice of Calcutta High court coincided with Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal.[12] Due to alleged mistrust between Election Commission of India and Government of West Bengal, Supreme court has directed deployment of judicial officers[13] to complete the process of SIR in the state; for this purpose role of Justice Paul as Chief justice of Calcutta became instrumental in completing the ongoing rolls revision.[14] He cancelled the leaves of all judicial officers[15] in the state as well as also requested services of judicial officers from neighbouring states such as Odisha and Jharkhand for this purpose.[16] He also constituted appellate tribunal comprising former Calcutta HC chief justice T. S. Sivagnanam for hearing appeals related to names deletion from electoral rolls.[17]

In March 2026, 7 judicial officers (including 2 women) engaged in SIR work were gheraoed at BDO office at Malda, West Bengal and made hostages by angry mob, it was reported that during this incident Chief justice Paul repeatedly tried to contact West Bengal's chief secretary but his calls went unanswered[18] and situation was reportedly brought under control after midnight intervention of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant.[19] Supreme court rapped Bengal's chief secretary[20] by reportedly asking him to lower his security a little bit so that minions like Calcutta HC chief justice can speak to him.[21]

He retired as Calcutta High Court chief justice on 20 June 2026 after serving brief tenure of six months.

References

  1. Court, Calcutta High. "Calcutta High Court - Judges". www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in. Archived from the original on 2025-11-15. Retrieved 2026-01-16.
  2. "High Court for the State of Telangana". tshc.gov.in. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  3. "Justice Sujoy Paul appointed Cal HC acting CJ". The Times of India. 2025-09-27. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  4. "Justice Sujoy Paul Appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Telangana High Court". www.thelawadvice.com. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  5. Khanna, Gyanvi (2024-02-14). "MP HC Judge Requests Transfer As Son Practises In Same Court; Supreme Court Collegium Proposes Transfer To Telangana HC". www.livelaw.in. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  6. Sucheta (2024-02-14). "Supreme Court Collegium accedes to the requests of transfer made by 3 High Court Judges". SCC Times. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  7. Bench, Bar & (2024-03-18). "Central government clears transfer of Justice Sujoy Paul from Madhya Pradesh High Court to Telangana". Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  8. "Acting CJ Sujoy Paul of Telangana high court transferred to Calcutta HC". The Times of India. 2025-05-27. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  9. MP, Team (2025-09-27). "Justice Sujoy Paul appointed Acting CJ of Calcutta HC". www.millenniumpost.in. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  10. "Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Justice Sujoy Paul as Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court - Law Trend". 2026-01-12. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  11. Bench, Bar & (2026-01-14). "Centre notifies appointment of Justice Sujoy Paul as Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court". Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news. Retrieved 2026-01-14.
  12. Service, Statesman News (2026-03-20). "Calcutta HC chief justice reviews situation ahead of publishing updated voters' list". The Statesman. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  13. "Bengal govt welcomes SC order permitting Calcutta HC to deploy additional judicial manpower for SIR". ANI News. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  14. Mohanty, Suchitra Kalyan (2026-02-20). "'No option left': SC orders deployment of judicial officers in Bengal's SIR exercise". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  15. "No leaves for judicial officers, training programmes cancelled: Calcutta HC after SC directions on SIR". The Indian Express. 2026-02-22. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  16. PTI (2026-02-24). "Bengal SIR: SC allows deployment of judicial officers from Jharkhand, Odisha for claim verification". ThePrint. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  17. Network, Post News (2026-03-10). "Bengal SIR: SC orders tribunals to hear appeals against exclusions - OrissaPOST". Odisha News, Odisha Latest news, Odisha Daily - OrissaPOST. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  18. PTI (2026-04-02). "SIR protest: SC slams West Bengal govt over gherao of judicial officials, terms incident calculated". ThePrint. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  19. "'I Don't Want To Politicise It, But...': CJI On 7 Judicial Officers Held Hostage In Malda, Orders Probe by CBI or NIA". Times Now. 2026-04-02. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  20. PTI (2026-04-06). "SC gives Malda incident probe to NIA, pulls up Bengal chief secretary for not taking HC CJ's calls". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
  21. "Lower yourself so 'minions' like Chief Justice can speak to you: SC pulls up Bengal chief secy over unanswered calls". Hindustan Times. 2026-04-07. Retrieved 2026-04-20.