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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Former Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Vijay Kumar Bist<br />
| office = [[Chief Justice]] of [[Sikkim High Court]]<br />
| honorific_prefix = Hon'ble Retd. Chief Justice<br />
| term_start = 30 October 2018<br />
| term_end = 16 September 2019<br />
| nominator = [[Ranjan Gogoi]]<br />
| appointer = [[Ram Nath Kovind]]<br />
| office2 = [[Judge]] of [[Uttarakhand High Court]]<br />
| term_start1 =<br />
| term_end1 = <br />
| term_start2 = 1 November 2008<br />
| term_end2 = 29 October 2018<br />
| nominator2 = [[K. G. Balakrishnan]]<br />
| appointer2 = [[Pratibha Patil]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|09|17}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Lansdowne, India|Lansdown]], [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Allahabad University]] <br />
}}<br />
'''Vijay Kumar Bist''' (born 17 September 1957) is a retired Indian judge, former [[Chief justice|Chief Justice]] of [[Sikkim High Court]] and former [[judge]] of [[Uttarakhand High Court]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
Bist was born in [[Lansdowne, India|Lansdown]], [[Pauri Garhwal district]], in [[Uttarakhand]]. He passed from Intermediate College Kanskhet, Pauri Garhwal and completed [[LL.B]]. from [[Allahabad University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/vijay-kumar-bist-sworn-in-as-sikkim-high-court-chief-justice-118103000618_1.html|title=Vijay Kumar Bist sworn in as Sikkim High Court chief justice|author=Press Trust of India|date=30 October 2018|newspaper=Business Standard|access-date=21 March 2019}}</ref> He started practice under S.P. Gupta, Senior Advocate from 1984 in the various courts of [[Uttar Pradesh]] as well as [[Allahabad High Court]]. In his lawyer career, Bist was the Legal advisor and Standing Counsel of Allahabad University, [[North Eastern Railway zone|North Eastern Railway]], various Corporations, Housing Federation, Development Authority like government undertaking institutions. After the formation of the Uttarakhand, he shifted to Nainital and also served as panel advocate of Uttarakhand State Government in the [[Uttarakhand High Court]]. Bist was elevated as Judge of the Uttarakhand High Court on 1 November 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://highcourtofsikkim.nic.in/hcs/JudgesProfile|title=Judges|website=highcourtofsikkim.nic.in|access-date=6 December 2018|archive-date=17 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417124547/http://highcourtofsikkim.nic.in/hcs/JudgesProfile|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arunachaltimes.in/index.php/2018/10/31/vijay-kumar-bist-sworn-in-as-sikkim-high-court-chief-justice/|title=Vijay Kumar Bist sworn in as Sikkim High Court chief justice|website=arunachaltimes.in|access-date=6 December 2018}}</ref> On 30 October 2018 Justice Bist was appointed the Chief Justice of [[Sikkim High Court]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Justice Vijay Kumar Bist to become next Chief Justice of Sikkim |url=https://www.summittimes.com/single-post/2018/10/14/Justice-Vijay-Kumar-Bist-to-become-next-Chief-Justice-of-Sikkim?_amp_ |accessdate=6 December 2018 |agency=Summit Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/vijay-kumar-bist-sworn-in-as-sikkim-high-court-chief-justice/1366712/|title=Vijay Kumar Bist sworn in as Sikkim High Court chief justice|access-date=6 December 2018}}</ref><br />
He retired on 16 September 2019.<br />
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[[Category:1957 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Justices of the Uttarakhand High Court]]<br />
[[Category:Garhwali people]]<br />
[[Category:Chief justices of the Sikkim High Court]]<br />
[[Category:University of Allahabad alumni]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian lawyers]]<br />
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