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| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable|The Hon'ble Justice]]<br />
| name = Jyotirmay Bhattacharya<br />
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| office = [[Calcutta High Court#List of Chief Justices|Acting]] [[Chief Justice ]]<br/>of the [[Calcutta High Court]]<br />
| term_start = 25 October 2017<br />
| term_end =24 September 2018 <br />
| nominator = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--><br />
| appointer = [[Ram Nath Kovind]] ([[President of India]])<br />
| predecessor = [[Rakesh Tiwari]] ''(acting)''<br />
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| office1 = [[Judge]], Calcutta High Court<br />
| term_start1 = 3 December 2003<br />
| term_end1 =24 September 2018 <br />
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| appointer1 = [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]<br />
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|alma_mater = [[St. Xavier's College, Kolkata]]<br>[[Faculty of Law, University of Calcutta]]<br />
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Justice '''Jyotirmay Bhattacharya''' (born 25 September 1956) is a retired [[Indian people|Indian]] [[jurist]] who served as the acting [[Chief Justice]] at the [[Calcutta High Court]] from October 2017 to April 2018 and was Chief Justice of the same high court from 1 May 2018 to September 2018.<ref name="CalcuttaHC">{{Cite web |url=http://www.calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/bio/jbhattacharya.htm |title=J. Bhattacharya |website=www.calcuttahighcourt.nic.in |access-date=2017-12-02 |archive-date=26 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126155926/http://www.calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/bio/jbhattacharya.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Education==<br />
Bhattacharya was born in the Village Beliachandi of [[South 24 Parganas]], where he was educated at [[Baruipur High School]]. Afterward, he went to [[St. Xavier's College, Calcutta]] and got his [[LL. B.]] degree from the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name="CalcuttaHC"/><ref name="LegalEra">{{Cite news |url=http://www.legaleraonline.com/news/justice-jyotirmay-bhattacharya-appointed-acting-chief-justice-calcutta-hc |title=Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya appointed Acting Chief Justice: Calcutta HC |date=2017-10-23 |work=Legal Era |access-date=2017-12-02 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Bhattacharya enrolled at the [[Bar association|Bar]] in March 1983. He started practising in the Civil and Writ Jurisdictions of the Calcutta High Court. In 2003, he was appointed a Permanent Judge at the court.<ref name="CalcuttaHC"/><ref name="LegalEra"/><ref name="Kolkata24x7">{{Cite news |url=https://english.kolkata24x7.com/justice-jyotirmay-bhattacharya-acting-cj-calcutta-hc.html/ |title=Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya Acting CJ Of Calcutta HC |date=2017-10-22 |work=Kolkata 24x7 |access-date=2017-12-02 |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==Notable judgements==<br />
* A High Court bench presided by Bhattacharya held in September 2012 that land acquisition along certain stretches of [[Kolkata Metro]] stood lapsed on account of compensation not being awarded to the tenants within the stipulated period. This was in response to a writ petition filed by Central Calcutta Citizens' Welfare Association.<ref name="TheHindu">{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/land-acquisition-for-kolkata-metro-stands-lapsed-court/article3887517.ece |title=Land acquisition for Kolkata Metro stands lapsed: Court |last=Dutta |first=Ananya |date=2012-09-12 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2017-12-02 |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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