Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar
Judge in Rajasthan, first woman Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
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Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar (Hindi: कान्ता भटनागर 1930?- August 13, 2011) was a judge and human rights activist in India. Bhatnagar was the first woman to become a Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and was the first chairperson of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission.
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Bhatnagar worked as a judge in Rajasthan in 1968. She became the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in June of 1992. She was the first woman to serve as chief justice of that court and held that post for around five months.
Bhatnagar became the first chair of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission in 2000.
She died of a heart attack in Udaipur on August 13, 2011.