Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 22 August 1946[1]) is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.
He was appointed Supreme Court judge on 12 January 2007 and retired on 21 August 2011, completing a four-and-a-half-year tenure.
He then assumed office of the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court from 20 March 2005 up to 11 January 2007.
His notable judgements include the confirmation of death sentence on Pakistani national Mohammed Arif alias Ashfaq in the 2000 Delhi Red Fort attack,[3] part of a two judge bench with Justice T. S. Thakur.
In December 2009, he reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment in a case of "honour killing" of a girl by her brother.