List of high courts in India
High Courts in India (names are abbreviated) |
The High Courts in India are the higher courts in the Indian states . Your local jurisdiction extends over one or more states or union territories . Basic regulations on high courts are made under Part VI, Chapter V (Articles 214-231) of the Constitution of India . The judges at the high courts are appointed by the President of India in consultation with the Chief Justice of India (the President of the Indian Supreme Court ) and the respective governor of the state . There are currently 24 high courts in India. The seat of the high courts is usually, but not always, the respective capital of the state.
The Calcutta High Court first began its work on July 2, 1862. There are currently 24 high courts in place. For some high courts, branches have been set up in locations with high numbers of cases or in states whose competent high court is outside of the respective state territory. In states / union territories with few cases, non-permanent branch offices have been created.
On July 20, 2016, the Indian government introduced a bill ( High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill, 2016 ) in the Lok Sabha , according to the Bombay High Court , Madras High Court and Calcutta High Court in future according to the modern names of the cities in Mumbai High Court , Chennai High Court and Kolkata High Court are to be renamed. The project met with resistance. The judges at the Calcutta High Court spoke out against the abandonment of the historic name. The parliament of Tamil Nadu voted in a resolution for the name Tamil Nadu High Court instead of Chennai High Court .
Web links
- The High Courts in the States. In: Wikisource. Retrieved October 29, 2009 .
- Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts. In: Eastern Book Company. Retrieved October 29, 2009 .
- High Courts' procedural archive. Retrieved October 30, 2009 .
- Official High Courts websites
- Allahabad High Court
- Bombay High Court
- Calcutta High Court
- Chhattisgarh High Court
- Delhi High Court
- Gauhati High Court
- Gujarat High Court
- Himachal Pradesh High Court
- High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad
- Jammu & Kashmir High Court
- Jharkhand High Court
- Karnataka High Court
- Kerala High Court
- Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Madras High Court
- High Court of Manipur
- High Court of Meghalaya
- Orissa High Court
- Patna High Court
- Punjab and Haryana High Court
- Rajasthan High Court
- Sikkim High Court
- Uttarakhand High Court
Individual evidence
- ↑ Govt. moves Bill to change names of High Courts. The Hindu, July 20, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Monideepa Banerjie: No Kolkata, Say Calcutta High Court Judges, Rejecting Name Change. NDTV, July 19, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
- ^ Resolution for renaming of Madras High Court passed. (No longer available online.) The Hindu, August 2, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 5, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Originally built in Agra in 1866 , it was moved to Allahabad in 1869.
- ↑ From 1919 until the partition of India in 1947, Delhi and Punjab belonged to the jurisdiction of the Lahore High Court . Until 1966, the newly created High Court of Punjab in Shimla (from 1954 in Chandigarh ) was responsible for the Indian state of Punjab and the capital city of Delhi . In the course of the separation of the state of Haryana from Punjab in 1966, the court was divided between the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the new Delhi High Court , which until 1971 also had jurisdiction over the Himachal Pradesh area .
- ↑ to 1963 as High Court of Assam , to 1971 as High Court of Assam and Nagaland , renamed by the North East Areas (Reorganization) Act, 1971
- ↑ The High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad was established with the establishment of the state of Andhra in 1953. After the States Reorganization Act 1956, the High Court was renamed the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and took its seat in the city of Hyderabad. It was given its current name after Telangana split from Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
- ↑ to 1973 as Mysore High Court
- ↑ from 1949 to 1956 as High Court of Travancore-Cochin , after the creation of the state of Kerala also for the area of Lakshadweep
- ↑ The original High Court for the "Central Provinces" was established in Nagpur . With the creation of the state of Madhya Pradesh, the seat was relocated to Jabalpur in 1956.
- ↑ The Manipur High Court was established in 2013. Prior to 2013, Manipur was under the jurisdiction of the Gauhati High Court .
- ↑ The Meghalaya High Court was established in 2013. Prior to 2013, Manipur was under the jurisdiction of the Gauhati High Court .
- ↑ From 1919 to 1947 under the jurisdiction of the Lahore High Court , then only Punjab High Court until the state of Punjab was divided in 1966
- ↑ The Tripura High Court was established in 2013. Prior to 2013, Tripura was under the jurisdiction of the Gauhati High Court .
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