Indian judge (born 1956)
Navin Sinha is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Sinha was elevated as a judge of the Patna High Court before serving as chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court and after that as the chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court before being elevated to the Supreme Court.
Early life and education
Sinha was born on 19 August 1957 in a Kayastha family.[1] He was born in a family of lawyers/administrators. Sinha did his schooling at St. Xavier's High School, Patna,[2] and passed out in 1972. He moved on to New Delhi to do his graduation from Hindu College, Delhi[3] and did his Bachelor of Laws from the Campus Law Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, in 1979.
Career
Sinha joined bar on 26 July 1979 and practised for 23 years primarily at Patna High Court and specialised in civil, constitutional, labour, service, commercial, company, criminal laws. He was elevated as a judge there. He was made a permanent judge of Patna High Court on 4 February 2004.[4][5] He was transferred to the Chhattisgarh High Court on 9 July 2014.
Sinha was sworn in as the new chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court on May 14, 2016. He was administered the oath as the 31st chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court by Governor Kalyan Singh.[6]
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