Sheel Nagu

Sheel Nagu was born on 1 January 1965. He enrolled as an advocate on 5 October 1987. He practised on civil and constitutional sides as advocate in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh on 27 May 2011 and was confirmed as Permanent Judge on 23 May 2013. He was senior most puisne judge in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at the time of retirement of the then Chief justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Ravi Malimath thus he was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on May 25, 2024 succeeding Justice Malimath. During his tenure of over 12 years as Judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court he authored at least 499 reported judgments.^[3][4]

On 27 December 2023, Supreme Court collegium headed by the then CJI Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud nominated him for the post of Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court.^[5] The central government notified his appointment on 4 July 2024.^[6]

Justice Sheel Nagu took oath as the Chief Justice of High Court of Punjab and Haryana on 9 July 2024.^[7]

He was appointed as member of 3 Judge panel along with Himachal Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia and Karnataka High Court Judge Anu Sivaraman constituted by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on 22 March 2025 to probe into the allegations of cash recovery at residence of Delhi High Court Judge Yashwant Verma.^[8]