Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma is presently a Judge of the High Court of Calcutta. Prior to his elevation to the High Court, he served in various judicial and administrative capacities during his distinguished judicial career.

While serving as Presenting Officer with the National Human Rights Commission, he completed a Course on Conflict Management through the Distance Learning Programme of the University of Oxford, London.

During his judicial career, Justice Sharma has presided over courts exercising diverse jurisdictions and has held several important positions, including Secretary, Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee; Director (Academics), Delhi Judicial Academy; Registrar (Vigilance), High Court of Delhi; Registrar General, High Court of Delhi; and Principal District & Sessions Judge, New Delhi.

He is a Fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has also served as a Mediator and Mediation Trainer with the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee of the Supreme Court of India.

Justice Sharma took oath as a Judge of the High Court of Delhi on 28 February 2022.

He has been closely associated with the Vulnerable Witness Deposition Complex programme and has contributed to the drafting of the Vulnerable Witness Guidelines of the High Court of Delhi. He has also been actively involved in the training of stakeholders under the Vulnerable Witness training programmes organised by the High Court since their inception in 2010..