List of chief justices of the Bombay High Court

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Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
since 29 July 2023
Bombay High Court
AbbreviationCJ Bombay
Seat Bombay
NominatorCollegium of the Supreme Court of India
Appointer President of India
Term length till the age of 62 yrs [1]
Constituting instrument Constitution of India (under Article 124)
Formation1862;163 years ago (1862)
First holderJustice Matthew Richard Sausse (1862-1866)
Salary250,000 (US$2,900) (per month) [2]
Website http://www.bombayhighcourt.nic.in/

This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

List

#PictureChief JusticeTook office
1Sir William Syer [3] 1798Died 1802
2Sir James Mackintosh [4] 1803
3Sir John Henry Newbolt 1811
4Sir Alexander Anstruther [4] 1812Died 1819
5Sir D. Evans [4] 1820Died 1821
6Sir Edward West [4] 1822Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1823
6Sir Edward West [5] [6] 1823first year was in the Recorder's Court
7Sir James Dewar [5] 1829
8Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton [5] 1831
9Sir John Wither Awdry [5] 1839
10Sir Henry Roper [5] 1840
11Sir David Pollock [5] 1846
12Sir Thomas Erskine Perry [5] 1847
13Sir William Yardley [6] 1852
14Sir Matthew Richard Sausse [6] 1859became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 1862
14Sir Mathew Richard Sausse 18621866
15Sir Richard Couch 18661870
16Sir Michael Roberts Westropp 18701882
17Sir Charles Sargent 18821895
18Sir Charles Frederick Farran 18951898
19Sir Louis Addin Kershaw 18981899
20Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins 18991908
21Sir Basil Scott 19081919
22Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod 19191926
23Sir Amberson Barrington Marten 19261930
24Sir John William Fisher Beaumont 19301943
25Sir Leonard Stone 19431947
After Independence
26Sir Leonard Stone19471948
27 Mahommedali Currim Chagla 19481958
28 Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani 19581965
29 Yeshwant Shripad Tambe 19654 February 1966
5 February 196631 July 1966
30 Sohrab Peshotan Kotval 1 August 196626 September 1972
31 K. Kalyandas Desai 27 September 197226 October 1972
32 Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala 27 October 19725 October 1978
33 B. N. Deshmukh 6 October 197818 November 1980
34 Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande 19 November 198011 January 1981
12 January 198111 August 1982
35 Dinshah Pirosha Madon 12 August 198230 August 1982
31 August 198214 March 1983
36 Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar 15 March 198314 March 1984
37 Konda Madhava Reddy 8 April 198421 October 1985
38 Madhukar Hiralal Kania 23 June 19861 May 1987
39 Chittatosh Mookerjee 2 November 198731 December 1990
40 Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai 7 January 199113 December 1992
41 Manoj Kumar Mukherjee 9 January 199314 December 1993
42 Sujata Manohar 15 January 19947 November 1994
43 Anandamoy Bhattacharjee 21 April 19941 April 1995
44 Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah 2 August 19959 December 1998
45 Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal 3 February 199928 January 2000
46 Bisheshwar Prasad Singh 31 March 200014 December 2001
47 Chunilal Karsandas Thakker 31 December 20017 June 2004
48 Dalveer Bhandari 25 July 200427 October 2005
49 Kshitij R. Vyas 25 February 200618 July 2006
50 Harjit Singh Bedi 3 October 200612 January 2007
51 Swatanter Kumar 31 March 200730 December 2009
52 Anil Ramesh Dave 11 February 201029 April 2010
53 Mohit Shantilal Shah 26 June 20108 September 2015
54 Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela 15 February 201610 August 2016
55 Manjula Chellur 22 August 20164 December 2017
56 Vijaya Tahilramani 5 December 201712 August 2018
57 Naresh Harishchandra Patil 13 August 201828 October 2018
29 October 20186 April 2019
58 Pradeep Nandrajog 7 April 201923 February 2020
59 B. P. Dharmadhikari 24 February 202019 March 2020
20 March 202027 April 2020
60 Dipankar Datta 28 April 202011 December 2022
61 Ramesh Devkinandan Dhanuka 28 May 202330 May 2023
62 Nitin Jamdar 30 May 202328 July 2023
63 Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya 29 July 202320 January 2025
64 Alok Aradhe 21 January 2025Present

References

  1. "Supreme Court of India - CJI & Sitting Judges" . Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  2. "Supreme Court, High Court judges get nearly 200% salary hike". The Hindustan Times . 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  3. The Asiatic annual register, or: View of the history of Hindustan ..., Volume 1
  4. 1 2 3 4 Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Joseph Haydn (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire. Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans. p.  272 . Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 J. HIGGINBOTHAM (1862). The Bombay Miscellany. p. 640. Retrieved 23 September 2013.