Nishita Nirmal Mhatre

Mhatre was born on 20 September 1955. For her post-secondary education, Mhatre attended Sophia College and Government Law College, Mumbai. Apart from law, Mhatre also studied microbiology.^[1]

In 1978, Mhatre began her legal career with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa as a practicing Advocate in the Bombay High Court and before the Industrial and Labour Courts in Mumbai. She was elevated in the year 2001 as a judge in the Bombay High Court until her transfer in 2012 to the Calcutta High Court.

In 2016, she became acting Chief Justice after the retirement of the Chief Justice Girish Chandra Gupta.^[1][2]

Justice Mhatre retired in 2017 as acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.