Alak Chandra Gupta was a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Justice Gupta studied in Bhowanipore Mitra Institution and Presidency College, Kolkata. He passed M.A., LL.B from the University of Calcutta. He was enrolled as an advocate on 31 August 1945 and started practice in Civil, Criminal and Constitutional matters in the Calcutta High Court. In 1964 he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Calcutta High Court. Justice Gupta became the permanent Judge on 24 February 1966. He was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India in 1974.
Justice Gupta retired on 1 January 1982.