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	'''Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar''' (Hindi: '''कान्ता भटनागर''' <ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|url=http://rshrc.rajasthan.gov.in/former-chairman-members.htm\|title=Former Chairman & Members\|website=Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520103644/http://rshrc.rajasthan.gov.in/former-chairman-members.htm\|archive-date=20 May 2015\|url-status=\|access-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> {{circa\|1930}} - 13 August 2011) was a [[judge]] and [[human rights]] activist in India. Bhatnagar was the first woman to become a Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]] and was the first chairperson of the [[Rajasthan State Human rights Commission\|Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission]].<ref name=":0" />		'''Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar''' (Hindi: '''कान्ता भटनागर''' <ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|url=http://rshrc.rajasthan.gov.in/former-chairman-members.htm\|title=Former Chairman & Members\|website=Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520103644/http://rshrc.rajasthan.gov.in/former-chairman-members.htm\|archive-date=20 May 2015\|url-status=\|access-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> '''{{circa\|1930}}''' - 13 August 2011) was a [[judge]] and [[human rights]] activist in India. Bhatnagar was the first woman to become a Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]] and was the first chairperson of the [[Rajasthan State Human rights Commission\|Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission]].<ref name=":0" />

			She was the prominent Woman Judge in Rajasthan.

	==Biography==		==Biography==

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'''Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar''' (Hindi: '''कान्ता भटनागर''' <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://rshrc.rajasthan.gov.in/former-chairman-members.htm|title=Former Chairman & Members|website=Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520103644/http://rshrc.rajasthan.gov.in/former-chairman-members.htm|archive-date=20 May 2015|url-status=|access-date=30 July 2017}}</ref> {{circa|1930}} - 13 August 2011) was a [[judge]] and [[human rights]] activist in India. Bhatnagar was the first woman to become a Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]] and was the first chairperson of the [[Rajasthan State Human rights Commission|Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission]].<ref name=":0" />

==Biography==

Bhatnagar worked as a judge in Rajasthan in 1968.<ref name=":0" /> She became the Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]] in June 1992.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/former-madras-cj-passes-away/article2358322.ece|title=Former Madras CJ passes away|date=15 August 2011|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-07-30|language=en}}</ref> She was the first woman to serve as chief justice of that court<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eenaduindia.com/states/tamil-nadu/2017/04/05114152/New-CJ-of-Madras-HC-sworn-in-governor-CM-present.vpf|title=New CJ of Madras HC sworn in; governor, CM present|date=5 April 2017|work=Eenadu English Portal|access-date=2017-07-30|language=en-in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108120414/http://www.eenaduindia.com/states/tamil-nadu/2017/04/05114152/New-CJ-of-Madras-HC-sworn-in-governor-CM-present.vpf|archive-date=8 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> and held that post for around five months.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/madras-high-court-gets-all-woman-first-bench-for-1st-time-in-135-years/articleshow/59379229.cms|title=Madras High Court gets all-woman first bench for 1st time in 135 years - Times of India|last=Subramanil|first=A.|date=30 June 2017|work=The Times of India|access-date=2017-07-30}}</ref>

Bhatnagar became the first chair of the [[Rajasthan State Human rights Commission|Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission]] in 2000.<ref name=":1" />

She died at age 81 of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in [[Udaipur]] on 13 August 2011.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==

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