Sujoy Paul

Justice Paul was born on 21 June 1964 to Late Noni Gopal Paul and Manjushri Paul. He completed his school education in Pandit L.S. Jha Model Higher Secondary School and did his Graduation, Post Graduation and LL.B from Rani Durgavati University at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.

He enrolled as Advocate with the Bar Council of Madhya Pradesh in 1990 and actively practiced in civil, constitutional, industrial and service and other branches of Law and appeared before various courts.

He was elevated as Additional Judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur on 27 May 2011 and was confirmed as permanent Judge on 14 April 2014.

He was transferred to Telangana High Court on his request to get transferred from Madhya Pradesh High Court as his son was practising in the Madhya Pradesh High Court.^[5][6] He took oath as Judge of Telangana High Court on 26 March 2024.^[7] He was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Telangana High Court on 21 January 2025 consequent upon the transfer of the then chief justice Alok Aradhe to Bombay High Court.^[4]

He was transferred to Calcutta High Court on 18 July 2025^[8] and became its acting chief justice on 8 October 2025.^[9]

On 9 January 2026, Supreme court collegium led by CJI Surya Kant recommended him to be appointed as chief justice of Calcutta High Court.^[10] Government cleared his appointment on 14 January 2026^[11] and he took oath as chief justice on 16 January 2026.

His tenure as chief justice of Calcutta High court coincided with Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal.^[12] Due to alleged mistrust between Election Commission of India and Government of West Bengal, Supreme court has directed deployment of judicial officers^[13] to complete the process of SIR in the state; for this purpose role of Justice Paul as Chief justice of Calcutta became instrumental in completing the ongoing rolls revision.^[14] He cancelled the leaves of all judicial officers^[15] in the state as well as also requested services of judicial officers from neighbouring states such as Odisha and Jharkhand for this purpose.^[16] He also constituted appellate tribunal comprising former Calcutta HC chief justice T. S. Sivagnanam for hearing appeals related to names deletion from electoral rolls.^[17]

In March 2026, 7 judicial officers (including 2 women) engaged in SIR work were gheraoed at BDO office at Malda, West Bengal and made hostages by angry mob, it was reported that during this incident Chief justice Paul repeatedly tried to contact West Bengal's chief secretary but his calls went unanswered^[18] and situation was reportedly brought under control after midnight intervention of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant.^[19] Supreme court rapped Bengal's chief secretary^[20] by reportedly asking him to lower his security a little bit so that minions like Calcutta HC chief justice can speak to him.^[21]