Andhra Pradesh High Court

High Court of Andhra Pradesh ఆంధ్ర రాష్ట్ర ఉన్నత న్యాయస్థానం
High Court of Andhra Pradesh building
Interactive map of High Court of Andhra Pradesh ఆంధ్ర రాష్ట్ర ఉన్నత న్యాయస్థానం
16°31′10″N80°29′08″E / 16.5195°N 80.4856°E / 16.5195; 80.4856
Established	1 January 2019;6 years ago (2019-01-01)
Jurisdiction	Andhra Pradesh
Location	Nelapadu, Andhra Pradesh
Coordinates	16°31′10″N80°29′08″E / 16.5195°N 80.4856°E / 16.5195; 80.4856
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of Andhra Pradesh
Authorised by	Constitution of India
Judge term length	till the age of 62 years
Number of positions	37
Website	aphc.gov.in
Chief Justice
Currently	Dhiraj Singh Thakur
Since	28 July 2023

The High Court of Andhra Pradesh is the High Court of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It serves the judicial duties of Andhra Pradesh. ^{[1] [2]}

History

The High Court of Andhra Pradesh was established in 1954 when the state was formed from the earlier Madras Presidency. After the merger of the Hyderabad State with Andhra State to form the State of Andhra Pradesh, the Court initially continued at Guntur till 1956. Thereafter the High Court started functioning from the then capital city of the state, Hyderabad. However, post bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad was constituted as a common High Court, until the new High Court for the State of Andhra Pradesh was created, by a Presidential order on 1 January 2019 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.

Geography and structure

The High Court is located at Amaravati. ^[3] It is a G+2 structure which has 23 halls that spread over an area of 220,000 square feet (20,000 m²). It was built in 4 acres with a cost of 157.3 crore. This building was constructed by Larsen & Toubro Limited. ^[1]

Chief Justice & Judges

The Andhra Pradesh High Court sits at Amravati, the capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh, ^[4] and can have maximum of 37 judges, of which 28 must be permanently appointed and 9 may be additionally appointed. The court currently has 29 judges. ^[5]

See also: List of sitting judges of High Courts of India § Andhra Pradesh High Court

Judges transferred from the Andhra Pradesh High Court-

Sr. No.	Name of the Judge	Recruitment	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Remark
1	Lalitha Kanneganti	BAR	2 May 2020	4 May 2033	Judge of Telangana High Court

List of chief justices

Supreme Court

#	Chief Justice	Term
1	Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange	1801–1816
2	Sir John Henry Newbolt	1816–1820
3	Sir Edmond Stanley	1820–1825
4	Sir Ralph Palmer	1825–1835
5	Sir Robert Buckley Comyn	1835–1842
6	Sir Edward John Gambier	1842–1850
7	Sir Christopher Rawlinson	1850–1859
8	Sir Henry Davison	1859–1860
9	Sir Colley Harman Scotland	1860–1861

High Court (British Administration)

#	Chief Justice	Term
9	Sir Colley Harman Scotland	1861–1871
10	Sir Walter Morgan	1871–1879
11	Sir Charles Arthur Turner	1879–1885
12	Sir Arthur John Hammond Collins	1885–1898
13	Charles Arnold White	1899–1914
14	John Edward Power Wallis	1914–1921
15	Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe	1921–1924
16	Sir Murray Coutts-Trotter	1924–1929
17	Sir Horace Owen Compton Beasley	1929–1937
18	Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach	1937–1947
19	Sir Fredrick William Gentle	1947–1948

High Court (Indian Administration)

S. No.	Chief Justice	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement
Madras High Court
1	P. V. Rajamannar	22 April 1948	4 July 1954

S. No.	Chief Justice	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement
Andhra High Court, Guntur
1	Koka Subba Rao	5 July 1954	31 October 1956

S.No.	Chief Justice	Tenure
United Andhra Pradesh High Court
1	Koka Subba Rao	1956–1958
2	P. Chandra Reddy	1958–1964
3	P. Satyanarayana Raju	1964–1965
4	Manohar Pershad	1965–1966
5	N.D. Krishna Rao	1966–1966
6	P. Jagan Mohan Reddy	1966–1969
7	N. Kumarayya	1969–1971
8	K.V.L. Narasimham	1971–1972
9	Gopal Rao Ekbote	1972–1974
10	S. Obul Reddi	1974–1976 & 1977–1978
11	B. J. Divan	1976–1977
12	Avula Sambasiva Rao	1978–1979
13	Challa Kondaiah	1979–1980
14	Alladi Kuppu Swami	1980–1982
15	Konda Madhava Reddy	1982–1984
16	Koka Ramachandra Rao	1984–1984
17	P. Chennakesav Reddi	1985–1985
18	K. Bhaskaran	1985–1988
19	Yogeshwar Dayal	1988–1991
20	S.C. Pratap	1991–1992
21	S.B. Majumdar	1992–1993
22	Sundaram Nainar Sundaram	1993–1994
23	Saiyed Sagir Ahmed	1994–1995
24	Prabha Shankar Mishra	1995–1997
25	Umesh Chandra Banerjee	1998
26	Manmohan Singh Liberhan	1998–2000
27	S. B. Sinha	2000–2001
28	Dr A.R. Lakshmanan	2001–2002
29	Devinder Gupta	2003–2005
30	G.S. Singhvi	2005–2007
31	Anil Ramesh Dave	2007–2010
32	Nisar Ahmad Kakru	2010–2011
33	Madan Lokur	2011–2012
34	Pinaki Chandra Ghose	2012–2013
35	Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta	2013 – 1 June 2014

S.No.	Chief Justice	Tenure
High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad
1	Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta	2 June 2014 – 6 May 2015
2	Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale	2015
3	T.B. Radhakrishnan	July 7, 2018 – December 31, 2018

S.No	Chief Justice	Tenure		Governor
Andhra Pradesh High Court
Acting CJ	Chagari Praveen Kumar [6]	1 January 2019	7 October 2019	E. S. L. Narasimhan
1	J. K. Maheshwari	7 October 2019	5 January 2021	Biswabhusan Harichandan
2	Arup Kumar Goswami	6 January 2021	12 October 2021
3	Prashant Kumar Mishra	13 October 2021	18 May 2023
4	Dhiraj Singh Thakur	18 May 2023	Incumbent	Syed Abdul Nazeer

Judges elevated as Chief Justice

This sections contains list of only those judges elevated as chief justices whose parent high court is Andhra Pradesh. This includes those judges who, at the time of appointment as chief justice, may not be serving in Andhra Pradesh High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of appointment as chief justice were serving in Andhra Pradesh High Court but does not have Andhra Pradesh as their Parent High Court.

Key RES Resigned † Elevated to Supreme Court

From new Andhra Pradesh High Court

Name	Image	Appointed as Chief Justice in HC of	Date of appointment		Date of retirement [a]	Tenure		Transferred as CJ to HC of	Ref..
			As Judge	As Chief Justice		As Chief Justice	As Judge [b]
Ramesh Ranganathan		Uttarakhand	26 May 2005	2 November 2018	27 July 2020	1 year, 269 days	14 years, 338 days	--
Sarasa Venkatanarayana Bhatti		Kerala	12 April 2013	1 June 2023	14 July 2023 [†]	44 days	10 years, 92 days	--

From erstwhile Undivided Andhra Pradesh High Court

Name	Image	Appointed as Chief Justice in HC of	Date of appointment		Date of retirement [a]	Tenure		Transferred as CJ to HC of	Ref..
			As Judge	As Chief Justice		As Chief Justice	As Judge [b]
Mohammed Ahmed Ansari		Kerala	29 November 1946	29 March 1960	25 November 1961	1 year, 242 days	14 years, 362 days	--	[7]
Penmetsa Satyanarayana Raju		Andhra Pradesh	1 November 1954	30 December 1964	19 October 1965 [†]	294 days	10 years, 353 days	--	[8]
Manohar Pershad		Andhra Pradesh	20 November 1946	20 October 1965	7 July 1966	261 days	19 years, 230 days	--
N. D. Krishna Rao		Andhra Pradesh	21 February 1955	8 July 1966	18 July 1966	11 days	11 years, 148 days	--
Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy		Andhra Pradesh	16 February 1952	19 July 1966	31 July 1969 [†]	3 years, 13 days	17 years, 166 days	--	[9]
Canakapalli Sanjeevrow Nayudu		Gauhati	13 March 1958	7 February 1967	7 March 1968	1 year, 30 days	9 years, 361 days	--	[8]
N. Kumarayya		Andhra Pradesh	18 August 1955	1 August 1969	14 June 1971	1 year, 318 days	15 years, 301 days	--
K. V. L. Narasimham		Andhra Pradesh	9 December 1959	15 June 1971	31 March 1972	291 days	12 years, 114 days	--
Gopal Rao Ekbote		Andhra Pradesh	7 June 1962	1 April 1972	31 May 1974	2 years, 61 days	11 years, 359 days	--
Seshareddi Obul Reddy		Andhra Pradesh	8 July 1966	1 June 1974	8 April 1978	3 years, 312 days	11 years, 275 days	Gujarat then back to Andhra Pradesh
Avula Sambasiva Rao		Andhra Pradesh	22 April 1967	9 April 1978	15 March 1979	341 days	11 years, 328 days	--
Challa Kondaiah		Andhra Pradesh	21 August 1967	16 March 1979	3 July 1980	1 year, 110 days	12 years, 318 days	--
Alladi Kuppu Swami		Andhra Pradesh	21 August 1967	23 November 1980	22 March 1982	1 year, 120 days	14 years, 214 days	--
Konda Madhava Reddy		Andhra Pradesh	28 May 1968	14 April 1983	21 October 1985	2 years, 191 days	17 years, 147 days	Bombay	[10]
Koka Ramachandra Rao		Andhra Pradesh	21 August 1968	1984	4 July 1984		15 years, 319 days	--	[8]
Palem Chennakesava Reddy		Andhra Pradesh	10 May 1972	1985	2 November 1986		14 years, 177 days	Gauhati
Anisetti Raghuvir		Gauhati	17 October 1974	6 May 1988	21 March 1991	2 years, 320 days	16 years, 156 days	--
Benjaram Pranaya Jeevan Reddy		Allahabad	17 July 1975	16 April 1990	6 October 1991 [†]	1 year, 174 days	16 years, 82 days	--
Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao		Kerala	29 November 1982	8 August 1991	20 March 1997 [†]	5 years, 225 days	14 years, 112 days	Delhi
Ambati Lakshman Rao		Allahabad	10 December 1982	10 April 1995	14 January 1996	280 days	13 years, 36 days	--
Makani Narayana Rao		Himachal Pradesh	11 July 1986	6 November 1997	21 April 1998	167 days	11 years, 285 days	--
Y. Bhaskar Rao		Karnataka	11 July 1986	9 March 1999	26 June 2000	1 year, 110 days	13 years, 352 days	--
P. Venkatarama Reddi		Karnataka	16 March 1990	21 October 2000	16 August 2001 [†]	300 days	11 years, 154 days	--
B. Subhashan Reddy		Madras	25 November 1991	12 September 2001	2 March 2005	3 years, 172 days	13 years, 98 days	Kerala
Buchireddy Sudarshan Reddy		Gauhati	2 May 1995	5 December 2005	11 January 2007 [†]	1 year, 38 days	11 years, 255 days	--
Jasti Chelameswar		Gauhati	23 June 1997	3 May 2007	9 October 2011 [†]	4 years, 160 days	14 years, 109 days	Kerala
Toom Meena Kumari		Meghalaya	23 February 1998	23 March 2013	3 August 2013	134 days	15 years, 162 days	--
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana		Delhi	27 June 2000	2 September 2013	16 February 2014 [†]	168 days	13 years, 235 days	--
Gorla Rohini		Delhi	25 June 2001	21 April 2014	13 April 2017	2 years, 358 days	15 years, 293 days	--
Lingappa Narasimha Reddy		Patna	10 September 2001	2 January 2015	31 July 2015	211 days	13 years, 325 days	--
Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy		Gujarat	2 December 2002	13 February 2016	1 November 2018 [†]	2 years, 262 days	15 years, 335 days	--	[11]

1. this inlcudes date of resignation, death and Elevation to supreme court
2. also includes tenure as Chief Justice

Judges elevated to Supreme Court

Currently serving

#	Name of the Judge	Image	Date of Appointment		Date of Retirement	Tenure			Immediately preceding office
			In Parent High Court	In Supreme Court		In High Court(s)	In Supreme Court	Total tenure [a]
1	Sarasa Venkatanarayana Bhatti		12 April 2013	14 July 2023	5 May 2027	10 years, 92 days	3 years, 296 days	14 years, 23 days	37th CJ of Kerala HC

Former Judges

#	Name of the Judge	Image	Date of Appointment		Date of Retirement	Tenure			Immediately preceding office	Remarks
			In Parent High Court	In Supreme Court		In High Court(s)	In Supreme Court	Total tenure [a]
1	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--

Former Judges from erstwhile Undivided Andhra Pradesh High Court

#	Name of the Judge	Image	Date of Appointment		Date of Retirement	Tenure			Immediately preceding office	Remarks
			In Parent High Court	In Supreme Court		In High Court(s)	In Supreme Court	Total tenure [a]
1	Penmetsa Satyanarayana Raju		1 January 1954	20 October 1965	20 April 1966	11 years, 292 days	183 days	12 years, 110 days	CJ in same High Court	Died in office
2	Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy		16 February 1952	1 August 1969	22 January 1975	17 years, 166 days	5 years, 175 days	22 years, 341 days	CJ in same High Court
3	Ontethupalli Chinnappa Reddy		21 August 1967	17 July 1978	24 September 1987	10 years, 330 days	9 years, 70 days	20 years, 35 days	Judge of Andhra Pradesh HC
4	Katikithala Ramaswamy		29 September 1982	6 October 1989	12 July 1997	7 years, 7 days	7 years, 280 days	14 years, 287 days	Judge of Andhra Pradesh HC
5	K. Jayachandra Reddy		7 March 1975	11 January 1990	14 July 1994	14 years, 310 days	4 years, 185 days	19 years, 130 days	Judge of Andhra Pradesh HC
6	Benjaram Pranaya Jeevan Reddy		17 July 1975	7 October 1991	13 March 1997	16 years, 82 days	5 years, 158 days	21 years, 240 days	31st CJ of Allahabad HC
7	Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao		29 November 1982	21 March 1997	1 December 2000	14 years, 112 days	3 years, 256 days	18 years, 3 days	17th CJ of Delhi HC
8	Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri		11 July 1986	4 December 1997	5 April 2003	11 years, 146 days	5 years, 123 days	16 years, 269 days	Acting CJ of Andhra Pradesh HC
9	P. Venkatarama Reddi		16 March 1990	17 August 2001	9 August 2005	11 years, 154 days	3 years, 358 days	15 years, 147 days	20th CJ of Karnataka HC
10	Buchireddy Sudershan Reddy		2 May 1995	12 January 2007	7 July 2011	11 years, 255 days	4 years, 177 days	16 years, 67 days	30th CJ of Gauhati HC
11	Jasti Chelameswar		23 June 1997	10 October 2011	22 June 2018	14 years, 109 days	6 years, 256 days	21 years, 0 days	29th CJ of Kerala HC
12	Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana		27 June 2000	17 February 2014	26 August 2022	13 years, 235 days	8 years, 191 days	22 years, 61 days	28th CJ of Delhi HC	48th Chief Justice of India
13	Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy		2 December 2002	2 November 2018	4 January 2022	15 years, 335 days	3 years, 64 days	19 years, 34 days	24th CJ of Gujarat HC

1. Includes both tenure as High Court Judge as well as Supreme Court Judge

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