Gauhati High Court

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Illuminated building of the Gauhati High Court

The Gauhati High Court ( Assamese গুৱাহাটী উচ্চ ন্যায়ালয় ) is a higher court in India . It has its seat in the city of Guwahati (formerly: Gauhati) in the state of Assam .

history

Borders in Northeast India since 1971

At the time of British India , the entire Northeast of India was under the jurisdiction of the Calcutta High Court in Calcutta . After India gained independence on August 15, 1947, the former province of Assam became the state of Assam. At that time Assam also comprised the area of ​​today's states of Nagaland , Arunachal Pradesh , Mizoram and Meghalaya . On September 9, 1947, the Parliament of Assam passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a separate judicial area for Assam. The incumbent Governor General of India C. Rajagopalachari then issued the Assam High Court Order on March 1, 1948 , 1948 , which ordered the establishment of its own High Court of Assam . On April 5, 1948, the court was formally inaugurated. The High Court initially took its seat in Shillong , the then capital of Assam, but moved to Gauhati on August 14, 1948. The jurisdiction of the High Court of Assam also extended to the then union territories of Tripura and Manipur (from 1949).

After a court organization in the form of district courts had been established in the so-called tribal areas of Assam, the Gauhati High Court was also given jurisdiction over these areas in 1954.

On December 1, 1963, the new state of Nagaland was spun off from Assam. The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court was initially retained, so that the High Court was consequently renamed the High Court of Assam and Nagaland . In 1971 there was another territorial reorganization of the Indian northeast and parts of Assam were formed into the new federal states or union territories of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. The High Court continued to have jurisdiction and was given its current name Gauhati High Court in 1971 . After that, the court was the higher court for a total of 7 states and union territories (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura). In 2012 the states of Tripura, Meghalaya and Manipur received their own high courts . Since then, the Gauhati High Court has jurisdiction over Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland.

In the longer term, it is to be expected that Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland will also have their own high courts , as Article 214 of the Indian Constitution stipulates that each federal state should have its own higher court.

Court organization

Currently (2017), including the Chief Justice, there are 24 regular and five temporary judges working at the Gauhati High Court .

The main seat of the court is in the city of Guwahati (Assam). There are also three benches in Kohima (Nagaland; established December 1, 1972), Aizawl (Mizoram; established July 5, 1990) and Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh; established August 12, 2000).

The next lower level in the court hierarchy are the district courts (27 for Assam, 11 for Nagaland, 8 for Mizoram and 13 for Arunachal Pradesh). The higher level ( appellate body ) is the Supreme Court of India , the highest court in India .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History. Gauhati High Court, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Appendix-1. Gauhati High Court, accessed November 4, 2017 (text of the Assam High Court Order, 1948 ).
  3. ↑ Appendix-2. Gauhati High Court, accessed November 4, 2017 (English, text of the Assam High Court (Jurisdiction over District Council Courts) Order 1954 ).
  4. ^ The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganization) Act, 1971. (pdf) (No longer available online.) Ministry of Justice of India, archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on November 4, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lawmin.nic.in
  5. ^ North-Eastern Areas (Reorganization) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 . In: The Gazette of India . No. 28 , June 5, 2012, p. 1–7 (English, online [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Article 214 in The Constitution Of India 1949. indiankanoon.org, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Profiles. Gauhati High Court, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  8. ^ Subordinate Judiciary. Gauhati High Court, accessed November 4, 2017 .

Coordinates: 26 ° 11 ′ 29 "  N , 91 ° 45 ′ 5.2"  E