Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju
Tara Vitasta Ganju, a first generation lawyer, was born in 1971 in New Delhi. She enrolled at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi in 1989 from which she obtained her High School Certificate. She read Political Science for her Bachelor’s degree from Lady Shriram College, University of Delhi in 1992 and graduated with Honours. Ms Ganju then obtained her Bachelor of Law degree in 1995 from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in the same year. Ms Ganju continued her education in law in the United Kingdom receiving the British Chevening scholarship, awarded by the British High Commission (British Council), New Delhi in 1999. This allowed her to complete a course in English, and EC Commercial Law and Practice, from the College of Law at York. Ms Ganju also pursued an online Diploma in International Acquisitions and Mergers at College of Law, U.K. in 2005. In 2018, she was certified as a Mediator at Samadhan: Delhi High Court Mediation & Conciliation Centre. Thereafter, Ms. Ganju attended an advanced International Seminar on Mediating Effectively at Pepperdine Law School – Strauss Institute of Dispute Resolution, USA in June, 2018.
Ms Ganju was appointed an Executive Member of the Women in Law and Litigation (WILL) Association in 2019. She has also served on the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Committee for Manipal Hospitals, New Delhi and Estocorp Group of Companies in New Delhi.
Before being elevated to the Bench, Ms Ganju practiced primarily before the Hon’ble Delhi High Court. She also steered cases before the Hon’ble Supreme Court and other courts in Delhi. In addition to this, she advised and undertook matters in a wide range of legal areas including property, inheritance law, civil laws, arbitration, company, criminal and intellectual property litigation under the original, appellate and writ jurisdictions of the Courts at Delhi and its neighbouring jurisdictions. Ms Ganju has also worked extensively in advising clients on a variety of legal issues concerning their business transactions, contractual matters and commercial and legal issues. She has also assisted the Delhi High Court as an Arbitrator, Mediator and Amicus Curiae in third party disputes.
Ms Ganju had been invited as a speaker at various conferences in India including the Legal India Conference 2018 on Alternate Dispute Redressal Mechanisms and Indian Oil Corporation’s Research & Development Centre in a seminar on Provision and Management of Intellectual Property Rights in the year 2007.
Tara Vitasta Ganju was appointed as a Permanent Judge of the Delhi High Court on May 18, 2022.