Shakuntala Mahanty

Being the eldest son of Late Barrister Ranjit Mahanty and mother Advocate Shakuntala Mahanty, he has a natural internal instinct towards the legal profession, which he showed at a very young age.After his schooling at the famous Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling, he graduated from the Ravenshaw College.He obtained his LLB degree from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University and after securing 1st Divn. in LLB he did his LLM in University of Cambridge, England and came out in flying colours having 1st Divn. to his credit.

After enrolment as an advocate, he practiced in the field of Commercial Law, Arbitration, taxation, Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional besides Service Law in various District level Courts, High Courts and in the Supreme Court of India.He has the rare distinction of conducting cases in different International Forums also.

Like his illustrious father who was involved in many social activities & mother who is actively associated with different welfare activities for the poor & downtrodden in the society, hislordship's activities were never limited to the legal profession only.In spite of his work pressure, he could devote time for social cause also.His involvement as a Member of Board of Governors at Mount Hermon school, Darjeeling from1997-99, at NALSAR from 2000-02, at National Law School of India University (Bangalore) from 2000-2003 and at Lawrence School (Lovedale) Ooty from 2002 to till his elevation are rare testimony of his immense interest in overall development of the standard of education and training in the Country.