Justice Hemant Gupta was born into a family of legal professionals. His father retired as the Chief Justice of the Punjab & Haryana High Court in the year 1991.
Justice Gupta enrolled as an advocate in 1980 and practiced at the Punjab and Haryana High Court, and served as an Additional Advocate General between 1997 to 1999.
He was appointed a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in July 2002. He was transferred to the Patna High Court in February 2016 and appointed its acting Chief Justice in October that year.
He was elevated as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in March 2017, and to the Supreme Court in November 2018.
As per his biodata on the top court’s website, Justice Gupta during his tenure at the Punjab & Haryana High Court was member of the Computer Committee, a period which
” … saw a complete computerization of the High Court including digitization of the entire records of judicial files and developing a mechanism to scan the freshly filed case, introduction of the Case Management System, launching of E-diary, E-filing of the cases, access to paper book module, on-line availability of the judgments and the daily/interim orders, extensive usage of the SMS, dispensing with the manual peshi registers, e-inspection, e-copy of the judgment(s)/order(s) by creating automated centralized copy agency.“
Source: Barandbench
