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Subhro Kamal Mukherjee

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Preceded byNirmalya Narayan Chakraborty
Subhro Kamal Mukherjee
Vice-Chancellor of the Rabindra Bharati University
Acting
In office
7 July 2023 – 1 August 2025
Appointed byGovernor of West Bengal
Preceded byNirmalya Narayan Chakraborty
Succeeded bySonali Chakravarti Banerjee
Vice-Chancellor of the Presidency University
Acting
In office
4 September 2023 – 4 June 2024
Appointed byGovernor of West Bengal
Preceded byAnuradha Lohia
Succeeded byNirmalya Narayan Chakraborty
28th Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court
In office
23 February 2016[1] – 9 October 2017
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee, President of India
Preceded byDhirendra Hiralal Waghela
Succeeded byH. G. Ramesh (acting)
Judge of the Karnataka High Court
In office
15 April 2015 – 22 February 2016
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee, President of India
Judge of the Calcutta High Court
In office
15 September 2000 – 14 April 2015
Appointed byK. R. Narayanan, President of India
Personal details
Born (1955-10-10) 10 October 1955 (age 70)
Spouse
Krishna Mukherjee
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(m. 1981)​
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta

Subhro Kamal Mukherjee (born 10 October 1955) is a retired Indian judge and a former chief justice of the High Court of Karnataka.[2] He was appointed as the interim Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University, Kolkata in September 2023. In July 2023, the Governor of West Bengal appointed him as the interim Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University.[3]

Mukherjee comes from a family of lawyers and is a sixth-generation lawyer.[4] He completed his Master of Arts in history and LLB from Calcutta University. He joined the Calcutta High Court as an advocate in 1982 practising mainly in civil and writ matters.[1]

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