| Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar | |
| Death Date: | 13 August 2011 (age 81) |
| Death Place: | Udaipur, Rajasthan, India |
| Known For: | High court judge chairperson of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission |
Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar (Hindi: कान्ता भटनागर [1] - 13 August 2011) was a judge and human rights activist in India. Bhatnagar was the first woman to become a Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and was the first chairperson of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission.
She was the prominent Woman Judge in Rajasthan.
Bhatnagar worked as a judge in Rajasthan in 1968. She became the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in June 1992.[2] She was the first woman to serve as chief justice of that court[3] and held that post for around five months.[4]
Bhatnagar became the first chair of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission in 2000.
She died at age 81 of a heart attack in Udaipur on 13 August 2011.