The high courts of India are the highest courts of appellate jurisdiction in each state and union territory of India. However,a high court exercises its original civil and criminal jurisdiction only if the subordinate courts are not authorized by law to try such matters for lack of peculiar or territorial jurisdiction. High courts may also enjoy original jurisdiction in certain matters,if so designated,especially by the constitution,a state law or union law.
Allahabad High Court,officially known as High Court of Judicature at Allahabad,is the high court based in the city of Prayagraj,formerly known as Allahabad,that has jurisdiction over the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 17 March 1866,making it one of the oldest high courts to be established in India.
Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha was an Indian judge known for his 1975 ruling in the State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain lawsuit,which invalidated the election of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Vishweshwar Nath Khare is a retired Indian judge who served as the 33rd Chief Justice of India,from 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004. He also served as the Chancellor of the Central University of Jharkhand from 2017 to 2023. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.
Ananga Kumar Patnaik is an Indian jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan was an Indian judge. He was chief justice of the Calcutta High Court,Telangana High Court,Hyderabad High Court and Chhattisgarh High Court and judge of Kerala High Court.
Satish K. Agnihotri is the former Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court. Earlier he has served as a judge of the Madras High Court at Chennai,Tamil Nadu and previously as the judge of Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur Chhattisgarh. He was sworn in by Acting Chief Justice R.K. Agarwal on 26 September 2013 as a judge of the Madras High Court. On 13 February 2014,he assumed the charge as the acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. On 22 September 2016,Agnihotri took charge as the Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court after Justice Sunil Kumar Sinha.
Navin Sinha is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Sinha was elevated as a judge of the Patna High Court before serving as chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court and after that as the chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court before being elevated to the Supreme Court.
Dinesh Maheshwari is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court &High Court of Meghalaya. He took the oath as a Judge of Rajasthan High Court on 2 September 2004. He was transferred to the Allahabad High Court and remained senior Judge at the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court from 2 March 2015. He took oath as Chief Justice of the High Court of Meghalaya on 24 February 2016. On transfer to Karnataka,Justice Maheshwari took oath as 30th Chief Justice of High Court of Karnataka on 12 February 2018. He took oath as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 18 January 2019.
Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh is the second seniormost Judge at the Madras High Court in India since April 2016. He briefly officiated as the Acting Chief Justice of the court from February 2017 till the appointment of Indira Banerjee as Chief Justice in April 2017. He was transferred to the High Court of Madhya Pradesh,Principal Seat at Jabalpur and assumed charge on 15.11.2018.
Sudhanshu Dhulia is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of the Gauhati High Court and judge of the Uttarakhand High Court.
Jagadish Bhalla is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan High Court.
Daya Saran Sinha was an Indian judge and the eighteenth chief justice of the Gujarat High Court. He also served as the first chairperson of the Gujarat State Human Rights Commission.
Krishna Murari is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He has also served as a judge of the Allahabad High Court till his elevation as chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Vikram Nath is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court and former judge of the Allahabad High Court. He was earlier recommended as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court but the centre disapproved the recommendations. He is the first chief justice of a High Court in India to live stream its proceedings on Youtube during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Munishwar Nath Bhandari is an Indian Judge. He is former Chief Justice of Madras High Court and currently serving as the Chairman,Appellate Tribunal under SAFEM Act,1976. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court and Allahabad High Court and Judge of Allahabad High Court and Rajasthan High Court.
Sunil Kumar Sinha is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court.
Ramesh Surajmal Garg or R. S. Garg is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court.
Pritinker Diwaker is an Indian judge,who previously served as the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court. He is a former Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court.
