List of High Courts: Jurisdiction & Chief Justice

The administration system of India has been divided into three pillars i.e. Legislature, Executives, and Judiciary. In India, the Judiciary system of independent organs and other organs of the government cannot interfere with the functioning of the judiciary. In India, the judiciary system has been mainly categorized into three parts i.e. Supreme Court (the topmost court of India), High Court, and District Court. In this article, we will discuss the list of High Courts: Jurisdiction & Chief Justice.

High Courts of India: Articles 214 & 231

As per Article 214 of the Indian Constitution, each state of India shall have a High Court.

While Article 231, mentions that there can be a common High Court for two or more States or two or more states and a union territory.

In India, as of now, there are 25 High Courts in India, out of which six have control over more than one State/UT.

Among the Union Territories (UTs), Delhi has a High Court of its own.

Each High Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and such other judges, which are appointed by the President of India.

High Courts of India: Oldest and Latest High Court

Calcutta High Court is the oldest high court in India, which was created in 1862.

Andhra High Court and Telangana High Court are the newest high court in India, which was created in 2019.

High Courts of India: Largest & Smallest High Court

The largest High Court in India is Allahabad High Court with the total strength of160 judges.

The smallest High Court in India is Sikkim High Court, with the total strength of 3 judges.

High Courts of India: Jurisdiction over more than one state/s or Union Territory

As of now, High Courts having jurisdiction over more than one state/s or Union Territory are 6, which are Bombay, Kolkata, Madras, Guwahati, Kerala, and Punjab & Haryana High Court.

• Bombay High Court: Maharashtra, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman, Diu, and Goa

• Kolkata High Court: West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands

• Madras High Court: Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry

• Guwahati High Court: Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh.

• Kerala High Court: Kerala and Lakshadweep Islands

• Punjab & Haryana High Court: Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh

List of High Courts: Jurisdiction & Chief Justice

Court	Jurisdiction	Chief Justice
Allahabad High Court	Uttar Pradesh	Manoj Kumar Gupta (Acting)
Andhra Pradesh High Court	Andhra Pradesh	Dhiraj Singh Thakur
Bombay High Court	Goa,  Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu,  Maharashtra	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
Calcutta High Court	Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal	T. S. Sivagnanam
Chhattisgarh High Court	Chhattisgarh	Ramesh Sinha
Delhi High Court	Delhi	Manmohan (Acting)
Gauhati High Court	Arunachal Pradesh Assam Mizoram Nagaland	Lanusungkum Jamir (Acting)
Gujarat High Court	Gujarat	Sunita Agarwal
Himachal Pradesh High Court	Himachal Pradesh	M. S. Ramachandra Rao
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court	Jammu and Kashmir Ladakh	N. Kotiswar Singh
Jharkhand High Court	Jharkhand	Shree Chandrashekhar (Acting)
Karnataka High Court	Karnataka	Prasanna B. Varale
Kerala High Court	Kerala, Lakshadweep	Ashish Jitendra Desai
Madhya Pradesh High Court	Madhya Pradesh	Ravi Malimath
Madras High Court	Puducherry Tamil Nadu	Sanjay V. Gangapurwala
Manipur High Court	Manipur	Siddharth Mridul
Meghalaya High Court	Meghalaya	Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew (Acting)
Orissa High Court	Odisha	Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi (Acting)
Patna High Court	Bihar	K. Vinod Chandran
Punjab and Haryana High Court	Chandigarh Haryana Punjab	Ritu Bahri (Acting)
Rajasthan High Court	Rajasthan	Manindra Mohan Shrivastava (Acting)
Sikkim High Court	Sikkim	Biswanath Somadder
Telangana High Court	Telangana	Alok Aradhe
Tripura High Court	Tripura	Aparesh Kumar Singh
Uttarakhand High Court	Uttarakhand	Manoj Kumar Tiwari (Acting)

FAQs:

1. How many numbers of High Courts are there in India?

Ans 25

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2. Which is the oldest High Court in India?

Ans: Calcutta High Court was established in 1862.

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3. Which is the smallest high court in India?

Ans: The Sikkim High Court was established in 1975.

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4. Which High Court has a maximum number of judges?

Ans: Allahabad High Court (160 Judges)

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