Justice Nagendra Kumar Jain is an Indian judge, and the current chairman of Bar Council of Rajasthan. He was also invited to discuss the reforms in the judiciary by Parliamentary Estimate committee in 1985. He became a member of the Bar council of India and Member of Executive and governing council of National Law School of India University in 1986.
Early life
He was born on 20 October 1942 in AlwarRajasthan and completed his primary education from Happy School. Later he shifted to Jaipur for his higher education and completed his secondary education from Mahaveer School. Further continued his education from Maharaja College, Jaipur and graduated from Rajasthan College of Rajasthan University. He also represented state in several National and inter state Badminton tournaments from 1955 to 1968 and in 1977 he also played Nationals in veterans.
Career
After receiving his degree of The Bachelor of Laws from Jodhpur University in 1967 was enrolled as an advocate on 26 January 1968 in Rajasthan High Court and started his practice with emphasis on Civil, Criminal, Constitutional, Writ, Company and Taxation Matters. He also worked as a part-time Lecturer in Jodhpur University and served on the following positions before being appointed as Judge of Rajasthan High court.
He became a Judge of Rajasthan High Court on 20 July 1990. He spent around six years at Jodhpur and about 16 months at Jaipur bench as a Judge. He was transferred to Madras High Court on 18 November 1997. He officiated as Chief Justice on 22 January 1999 till May 1999, 28 September to 9 October 1999 then 6 June till become permanent Chief Justice in Madras High Court on 13 September 2000. There after he was transferred as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court on 31 August 2001 and superannuated on 19 October 2004. Some of the important milestones of his Judicial career as follows:
Judge in the Rajasthan High Court from 20 July 1990 till 18 December 1997
He is a lifetime member of this working committee since January 1997 and contributes his efforts on regular basis. Under his presidency February 2011~14, he took the effort to publish an Introduction of the members of this committee since its inception in the year 1930, to highlight their contributions and motivate fellow members. He has broadly categorized his scope of work beyond the routine set of functions and activities which are regularly organised by the committee under the following heading. A stamp was released with pictorial view of the temple along with the seal on post card on 13th Rajpex 2012.
Recent activities
Following his retirement from the bench, Jain has campaigned against child marriage, organised by Help Educate Children and Awareness for Training, Motivation and Action supported by UNICEF India.
Publications
List of his publications during his tenure as Chairperson of Rajasthan Human Rights Commission:
