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Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court | |
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Incumbent since 11 October 2024Manoj Kumar Tiwari (acting) | |
Uttarakhand High Court | |
Abbreviation | CJ |
Seat | Nainital |
Nominator | Collegium of the Supreme Court of India |
Appointer | President of India with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of Uttarakhand |
Term length | till the age of 62 yrs |
Constituting instrument | Constitution of India (under Article 217) |
Formation | 9 November 2000 |
First holder | Ashok Desai (2000–2003) |
Website | Uttarakhand High Court |
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State of Uttarakhand उत्तराखण्ड राज्य |
The chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court is the highest presiding judicial officer in the state of Uttarakhand and the custodian of the Uttarakhand High Court. The chief justice is appointed by the President of India with the advice of the chief justice and the Governor of Uttarakhand. Manoj Kumar Tiwari is the current acting Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. He assumed office on 11 October 2024.
Following is the list of the chief justices of Uttarakhand since its inception on 9 November 2000:
No. | Name (birth–death) | Portrait | Term | Tenure | Parent High Court | Appointed by (President of India) | Note | |
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Acting | Ashok Desai (1942–2006) | 9 November 2000 | 5 December 2000 | 26 days | Bombay | K. R. Narayanan | First Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, assumed office as Acting Chief Justice. Resigned from office on 31 March 2003. | |
1 | Ashok Desai (1942–2006) | 6 December 2000 | 31 March 2003 | 2 years, 115 days (total 2 years, 142 days) | ||||
Acting | Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951) | 1 April 2003 | 4 August 2003 | 125 days | Allahabad | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | ||
2 | Sarosh Homi Kapadia (1947–2016) | 5 August 2003 | 17 December 2003 | 134 days | Bombay | Shortest-serving Chief Justice of Uttarakhand. Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 38th Chief Justice of India. | ||
Acting | Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951) | 18 December 2003 | 24 July 2004 | 219 days | Allahabad | |||
3 | Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 1946) | 25 July 2004 | 19 March 2005 | 237 days | Bombay | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | ||
4 | Cyriac Joseph (born 1947) | 20 March 2005 | 7 January 2006 | 293 days | Kerala | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | ||
Acting | Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951) | 8 January 2006 | 13 January 2006 | 5 days(total 349 days) | Allahabad | Longest-serving Acting Chief Justice of Uttarakhand. | ||
5 | Rajiv Gupta (born 1950) | 14 January 2006 | 1 February 2008 | 2 years, 18 days | Madhya Pradesh | |||
6 | Vinod Kumar Gupta (born 1947) | 2 February 2008 | 9 September 2009 | 1 year, 219 days | Jammu and Kashmir | Pratibha Patil | ||
Acting | Bipin Chandra Kandpal (born 1948) | 10 September 2009 | 24 September 2009 | 14 days | Uttarakhand | |||
Acting | Tarun Agarwal (born 1956) | 25 September 2009 | 28 November 2009 | 64 days | Allahabad | |||
7 | Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 1952) | 29 November 2009 | 11 August 2010 | 255 days | Punjab and Haryana | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 44th Chief Justice of India. | ||
8 | Barin Ghosh (1952–2015) | 12 August 2010 | 4 June 2014 | 3 years, 296 days | Calcutta | |||
Acting | Sudhanshu Dhulia (born 1960) | 5 June 2014 | 30 July 2014 | 55 days | Uttarakhand | Pranab Mukherjee | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | |
9 | Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph (born 1958) | 31 July 2014 | 6 August 2018 | 4 years, 6 days | Kerala | Longest-serving Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | ||
Acting | Rajeev Sharma (born 1958) | 7 August 2018 | 1 November 2018 | 86 days | Himachal Pradesh | Ram Nath Kovind | ||
10 | Ramesh Ranganathan (born 1958) | 2 November 2018 | 27 July 2020 | 1 year, 268 days | Andhra Pradesh | |||
Acting | Ravi Malimath (born 1962) | 28 July 2020 | 6 January 2021 | 162 days | Karnataka | |||
11 | Raghvendra Singh Chauhan (born 1959) | 7 January 2021 | 23 December 2021 | 350 days | Rajasthan | |||
Acting | Sanjaya Kumar Mishra (born 1961) | 24 December 2021 | 28 June 2022 | 186 days | Orissa | |||
12 | Vipin Sanghi (born 1961) | 28 June 2022 | 26 October 2023 | 1 year, 120 days | Delhi | |||
Acting | Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 1965) | 27 October 2023 | 3 February 2024 | 99 days | Uttarakhand | Droupadi Murmu | ||
13 | Ritu Bahri (born 1962) | 4 February 2024 | 10 October 2024 | 326 days | Punjab and Haryana | First woman Chief Justice of Uttarakhand. | ||
Acting | Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 1965) | 11 October 2024 | 25 December 2024 | 76 days | Uttarakhand | |||
14 | Guhanathan Narendar (born 1964) | 26 December 2024 | Incumbent | 0 days | Karnataka |
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