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'''Justice Swatanter Kumar''' is a retired justice of the [[Supreme Court of India]] and former [[Chairperson]] of the [[National Green Tribunal]]. He is also former [[Chief Justice]] of [[Bombay High Court]] and [[Judge]] of [[Delhi High Court]] and [[Punjab and Haryana High Court]].<br />
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{{Infobox Judge<br />
|name=Swatanter Kumar <br />
|office=[[Chairperson]] of [[National Green Tribunal]]<br />
|termstart=20 December 2012<br />
|termend=19 December 2017<br />
|appointer=[[Manmohan Singh]]<br />
|office1=[[Judge]] of [[Supreme Court of India]]<br />
|termstart1=18 December 2009<br />
|termend1=19 December 2012<br />
|appointer1=[[Pratibha Patil]]<br />
|nominator1=[[K. G. Balakrishnan]]<br />
|office2=[[Chief Justice]] of [[Bombay High Court]]<br />
|termstart2=31 March 2007<br />
|termend2=17 December 2009<br />
|appointer2=[[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]<br />
|nominator2=[[K. G. Balakrishnan]]<br />
|office3=[[Judge]] of [[Delhi High Court]]<br />
|termstart3=4 October 2004<br />
|termend3=30 March 2007<br />
|appointer3=[[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]<br />
|nominator3=[[Ramesh Chandra Lahoti]]<br />
|office4=[[Judge]] of [[Punjab and Haryana High Court]]<br />
|termstart4=30 November 1994<br />
|termend4=3 October 2004<br />
|appointer4=[[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]<br />
|nominator4=[[Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi]]<br />
|office5=[[Judge]] of [[Delhi High Court]]<br />
|termstart5=10 November 1994<br />
|termend5=29 November 1994<br />
|appointer5=[[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]<br />
|nominator5=[[Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi]]<br />
|birth_date={{birth date and age|df=y|1947|12|31}}<br />
|honorific-prefix=Hon'ble Retd. Justice<br />
}}<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Kumar enrolled as an [[advocate]] with the Delhi Bar Council on 12 July 1971.<ref name="Web site of Supreme Court of India">[http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/sjud/swatanterkumar.htm Web site of Supreme Court of India]</ref><ref name="The National Green Tribunal">[http://www.greentribunal.in/chairperson.php Chairman of Green Tribunal ]</ref> He practiced in various [[List of High Courts of India|High Courts]], [[Tribunals in India|Tribunals]] and the [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]], and served as an Additional District & Sessions Judge in the [[Himachal Pradesh]] High Court from February, 1983 till his resignation in October 1983, and thereafter resumed practice at New Delhi.<ref name="Web site of Supreme Court of India"/><ref name="The National Green Tribunal"/> He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court on 10 November 1994, transferred to P&H on 30 November 1994, and was appointed as a permanent Judge on 30 November 1995. He transferred to Delhi on 4 October 2004 and was appointed as [[Chief Justice]] of [[Bombay High Court]] on 31 March 2007.<ref name="Web site of Supreme Court of India"/><ref name="The National Green Tribunal"/><br />
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The appointment of Kumar as a judge of the Supreme Court by then President [[Pratibha Patil|Mrs. Pratibha Patil]] was announced by the Law and Justice Ministry in December 2009.<ref>{{cite news |title=Swatanter Kumar appointed Supreme Court judge |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article66594.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=17 December 2009 |accessdate=7 August 2010 }}</ref><br />
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He was appointed as the chairperson of [[National Green Tribunal Act|National Green Tribunal]] on 20 December 2012 and retired on 19 December 2017.<ref name="The Gazette of India" >. He retired from his post on 20 december 2017 [http://moef.nic.in/assets/2967.pdf The Gazette of India]</ref><ref>[http://moef.nic.in/modules/recent-initiatives/NGT/ Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)]</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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== Sexual harassment allegations ==<br />
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In 2014, a law intern alleged that Justice Kumar sexually harassed her.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Justice Kumar said that these allegations are a part of a "malicious conspiracy to damage his reputation".<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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