Madhya Pradesh High Court

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The Madhya Pradesh High Court (MPHC, Hindi मध्य प्रदेश उच्च न्यायालय ) is a higher court in India with its headquarters in the city of Jabalpur . Its jurisdiction extends to the state of Madhya Pradesh .

history

After the Indian uprising of 1857 , the British East India Company was dissolved and its possessions converted into the Crown Colony of British India . With effect from November 2, 1861, the Central Provinces were created as a new administrative unit with administrative headquarters in Nagpur . The province was initially administered by a chief commissioner and the highest court was the Judicial Commissioner's Court in Nagpur. From 1921 the province was subordinate to a governor. In 1933, the Nizam of Hyderabad ceded its rights to the adjacent Berar Province in return for regular monetary payments to the British government, so that the province was named Central Central Provinces and Berar . On January 2, 1936, the court in Nagpur was raised to a full-fledged provincial supreme court by Letter's patent from George V - King of Great Britain and Emperor of India. The legal basis for this was the Government of India Act, 1915 .

After India's independence in 1947, the province continued to exist and became the state of 'Madhya Pradesh' of the Indian Union when the Indian Constitution came into force on January 26, 1950. In the States Reorganization Act of 1956, the boundaries of many states were redrawn according to linguistic affiliations. The states affected also included Madhya Pradesh, which lost the Vidarbha region with its previous capital, Nagpur, to the neighboring state of Bombay and instead gained the areas of the previous states of Madhya Bharat , Bhopal , Vindhya Pradesh and the Sironj exclave of Rajasthan. The Madhya Pradesh High Court , renamed in 1956 , accordingly gave up its previous seat in Nagpur, but did not take its new seat in the new capital of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal , but in Jabalpur. There was another change in jurisdiction when the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh was constituted on November 1, 2000 as the new state of Chhattisgarh and the jurisdiction of the new state was transferred to the newly established Chhattisgarh High Court in Bilaspur .

Today's constitution

The MPHC has had its headquarters in Jabalpur since 1956. As early as 1956, temporary branch offices ( benches ) were set up in the cities of Indore and Gwalior . With a presidential ordinance of November 28, 1968, these temporary branch offices were converted into permanent branches where High Court judges were permanently active. In 2016, including the Chief Justice, there were 40 permanent judges working at the MPHC. The next lower court level is the district courts of Madhya Pradesh and the higher level is the Supreme Court of India , the highest court of India .

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  1. ↑ a b c History & Constitution. Madhya Pradesh High Court, accessed November 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Section 59 of The States Reorganization Act, 1956. August 31, 1956, accessed November 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 11 new judges of MP High Court to be sworn in tomorrow. Business Standard, April 6, 2016, accessed November 19, 2017 .
  4. ^ District Courts. Madhya Pradesh High Court, accessed November 19, 2017 .

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