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Justice Altamas Kabir is the new Chief Justice of India. He will assume office on September 29. Born on July 19, 1948 at Kolkata, Justice Kabir did his LLB and MA from University of Calcutta . He was enrolled at the Bar on August 1, 1973 and was made a permanent judge of Calcutta High Court on August 6, 1990. Justice Kabir assumed the office of acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court on January 11, 2005. He was elevated as Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court on March 01, 2005 and was made a judge of the Supreme Court of India on September 09, 2005. Justice Kabir was responsible for the computerization of the Calcutta High Court and the City Civil Court and other Courts in Kolkata. He was appointed as Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority on January 14, 2010.

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