Navniti Prasad Singh (born 6 November 1955) is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of the

Kerala High Court The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and the Union territory of Lakshadweep. It is located in Kochi. Drawing its powers under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the High Court has the power to issu ...

Career

Singh completed his schooling from

Scindia School The Scindia School is an Indian boarding school for boys, established in year 1897, and situated in the historic Gwalior Fort, in the city of Gwalior. It was originally started exclusively for royals and nobles of Indian princely states, part ...

Gwalior Gwalior() is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of Delhi, the capital city of India, from Agra and from Bhopal, the s ...

, graduated and passed Law from

Delhi University Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...

. He was enrolled as Advocate on 2 July 1980 and started practice in Patna and

Jharkhand High Court The Jharkhand High Court is one of the newest high courts in India. It was established in 2000. The court has jurisdiction over Jharkhand state. The seat of the court is at Ranchi, the administrative capital of the state. The court has a sa ...

on Commercial, Taxation and Constitutional matters. In his lawyer career he appeared on behalf of the

State Bank of India State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational public sector bank and financial services statutory body headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. SBI is the 49th largest bank in the world by total assets and ranked 221st in the ''Fortune ...

Lalit Narayan Mithila University The Lalit Narayan Mithila University (LNMU), formerly Mithila University, is a public university in India. Began in 1972, the university initially functioned from the Mohanpur House at Sara Mohanpur village of Darbhanga-Sakri route. In 1975, ...

and other statutory authorities. Singh became a Senior Advocate in December 2004. On 6 March 2006 he was appointed an additional Judge of

Patna High Court The Patna High Court is the High Court of the state of Bihar. It was established on 9 February 1916 and later affiliated under the Government of India Act 1915. The court is based in Patna, the administrative capital of the state of Bihar, In ...

. Justice Singh was elevated in the post of the Chief Justice of the

on 20 March 2017. He retired on 6 November 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Navniti Prasad 1955 births Living people Judges of the Patna High Court Chief Justices of the Kerala High Court 21st-century Indian lawyers 21st-century Indian judges Delhi University alumni Scindia School alumni People from Gwalior