Justice Bilal Nazki (born 18 November 1947) is an Indian jurist.

[4] He was one of eight children and his father, Ghulam Rasool Nazki  — a broadcaster, poet and literary figure who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987 — had moved from Bandipora to Srinagar in the year of Bilal's birth.

[5] After graduation he joined the Bar in Srinagar and practised in various courts, while also spending some time as a lecturer of the Kashmir University.

[6] In 1991, while serving as an advocate and during a period of considerable instability in the state, he was kidnapped by an unidentified militant group but managed to escape his captors, who shot him five times as he did so.

He moved from Bombay to become Chief Justice of Orissa High Court on 14 November 2009 and retired from there.