Judge Amogh Kaloti: The man who holds key to Tata dispute

MUMBAI: Till recently, Amogh Kaloti, who works under the law and judiciary department headed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, was barely known outside Maharashtra's legal circles. A low-profile district judge who was appointed Maharashtra's charity commissioner in Feb 2024, he has been pitched into the country's most high-profile corporate battle in recent years.In May 2026, acting on a complaint by Venu Srinivasan, Kaloti directed the Sir Ratan Tata Trust to stop holding board meetings and ordered a probe into the affairs of the trusts that own 66.4% of the Tata group.A lawyer by training and practice but now working as a bureaucrat, the 50-year-old Kaloti hails from Amravati, where he completed his education and practiced as an advocate in the district and sessions court.