Gobinda Mukhoty completed graduation from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1948. In 1957 he went to UK to study law. After completing his bar-at-law in 1964 he returned to India and started teaching at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He started practice as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in 1971 and was designated senior advocate in 1984. In 1976, during the Emergency he was actively associated with the newly formed People's Union for Civil Liberties and Democratic Rights. He was founder member of PUDR and its President till 1990. From then on he had been Advisor to the organisation.