Rajesh Bindal

Rajesh Bindal (born 16 April 1961) is a retired judge of Supreme Court of India and a former chief justice of Allahabad High Court. He has also earlier served as the acting chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and the Calcutta High Court.

Early life and career He was born on 16 April 1961 at Ambala, Haryana. He did his LL.B. from Kurukshetra University in 1985 and started his legal practice at High Court of Punjab and Haryana in September 1985. He represented Income-tax Department, Haryana region and Employees Provident Fund Organization (Punjab & Haryana Regions) before the High Court and Central Administrative Tribunal.

He was appointed as judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on 22 March 2006. On 11 November, he was recommended for a transfer to the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, the common high court for the union territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.

On 9 December 2020, Bindal was appointed by the President of India to serve as the acting chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court following the retirement of Gita Mittal. On 5 January 2021, following the elevation of Justice Pankaj Mithal as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice Bindal was transferred as a Judge to the Calcutta High Court. Following the retirement of T. B. Radhakrishnan, he was appointed by the president to serve as the acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on 29 April.

He was elevated as Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court on 9 October 2021 and took oath on 11 October 2021. In January 2023, supreme court collegium recommended his appointment to supreme court of India and government cleared his appointment in February. He sworn in as judge of Supreme Court of India on 13 February 2023. He retired from supreme court of India on 15 April 2026 after reaching at the age of 65, mandatory retirement age for supreme court judges in India.

Notable judgements Bindal was on the two judge bench along with justice B.S. Walia which quashed the Punjab Scheduled Caste and Backward Classes (Reservation in Services) Act, 2006. The legislation granted 20% reservations in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in C and D category government services and 14% in A and B category government services.