Nishita Nirmal Mhatre was the Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court in India.
She joined office on 1 December 2016 and retired as the acting chief justice of the Calcutta High Court on 18 September 2017.
During her tenure as the Acting Chief justice, she presided over the high-profile sting operation of the Trinamool Congress leaders popularly known as the Narada case and ordered CBI investigation in that case.
[1] In 1978, Mhatre began her legal career with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa as a practicing Advocate in the Bombay High Court and before the Industrial and Labour Courts in Mumbai.
She was elevated in the year 2001 as a judge in the Bombay High Court until her transfer in 2012 to the Calcutta High Court.