Sujit Barman Roy (born 28 January 1945) was an Indian judge and former Chief Justice of

Orissa High Court The Orissa High Court is the High Courts of India, High Court for the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Odisha. The then Bengal Presidency was a vast province including present day Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, and West ...

Career

Sujit Barman Roy studied in Patha Bhavana, Santiniketan under the

Visva Bharati University Visva-Bharati () is a public central university and an Institution of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it ''Visva-Bharati'', which means the communion of the w ...

. He graduated from Maharaja Bir Bikram College of

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. In 1974, he passed LL.B. from Hazra Law College,

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

and started practice at Agartala Bench under the

Gauhati High Court The Gauhati High Court was promulgated by governor general of India on 1 March 1948 after the '' Government of India Act 1935'' was passed. Establishing the High Court of Assam with effect from 5 April 1948, for the then Province of Assam. It ...

. Barman Roy became the Advocate General of Tripura in 1988. On 14 November 1991 he was appointed a permanent judge of the Gauhati High Court. In 1997 Justice Barman Roy was transferred to the

Calcutta High Court The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It is located in B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata, West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The High Court buildi ...

thereafter elevated to the post of Chief Justice of Orissa High Court in 2003. He retired from the post in January 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barman Roy, Sujit 1945 births Living people Judges of the Gauhati High Court Judges of the Calcutta High Court Chief Justices of the Orissa High Court University of Calcutta alumni People associated with Santiniketan