Swatanter Kumar

Swatanter Kumar is a retired justice of the Supreme Court of India and former chairperson of the National Green Tribunal. He is also former chief justice of Bombay High Court and judge of the Delhi High Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Biography Kumar enrolled as an advocate with the Delhi Bar Council on 12 July 1971. He practiced in various high courts, tribunals and the Supreme Court, and served as an additional district & sessions judge in the Himachal Pradesh High Court from February 1983 till his resignation in October 1983, and thereafter resumed practice at New Delhi.

He was appointed the chairperson of National Green Tribunal on 20 December 2012 and retired on 20 December 2017.

Sexual harassment allegations

In 2014, a law intern alleged that Kumar sexually harassed her. Justice Kumar said that the allegations were a part of a "malicious conspiracy to damage his reputation".