Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasanthakumar (born 15 March 1955) is from Palliyadi, Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, India and was the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
He took oath as the chief justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir in February 2015.
He was given an honorary post of member in Ecclesiastical Synod Courts, C.S.I.
During his term in the High Court of Madras, he had delivered several important judgements on several legal issues.
[4] Some important judgements pronounced by Justice Vasanthakumar include statutory prohibition for failing a student and retaining (him) in the same standard, refusing permission for granite quarrying in hilly areas, making it compulsory for banks to provide loans to students for educational purposes.