The Jharkhand High Court is one of the newest high courts in India. It was established in 2000. The court has jurisdiction over Jharkhand state.
The Patna High Court is the High Court of the state of Bihar. It was established on 9 February 1916 and later affiliated under the Government of India Act 1915.
M. Y. Eqbal was an Indian judge. He served as Judge of Supreme Court of India. He served also as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. He retired in February 2016.
Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian former advocate and former judge who served on the Supreme Court of India for seven years,firstly as a judge from 2012 to 2018,and as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months from 2018 to 2019. He is serving as a Member of the Rajya Sabha,having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge on Gauhati High Court,and then was transferred as a judge to Punjab and Haryana High Court,where he later became chief justice. He is serving as a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha.
Justice Dipak Misra is an Indian jurist who served as the 45th Chief Justice of India from 28 August 2017 till 2 October 2018. He is also former Chief Justice of the Patna High Court and Delhi High Court. He is the nephew of Justice Ranganath Misra,who was the 21st Chief Justice from 1990 to 1991.
Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah is presently a Judge of the Patna High Court. He has also served at the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
Rajendra Menon is an Indian judge. Presently,he is chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal. He is former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. He was born on 7 June 1957 and hails from Jabalpur,in Madhya Pradesh. He was a Judge and later the Acting Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court,and later the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
In India,an advocate general is a legal advisor to a state government. The post is created by the Constitution of India and corresponds to that of Attorney General for India at the union government level. The Governor of each state shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed as judge of High Court as the Advocate General.
Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani is a former Indian judge and prosecutor,who last served as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. Previously,as a judge of the Bombay High Court,she notably upheld the conviction of several persons for the rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during the 2002 Gujarat riots,chastising investigative authorities for their inaction in the matter,and also refused parole for those convicted in the 1993 Bombay bombings. She retired in 2019,after refusing to accept a controversial transfer from the Madras High Court to the Meghalaya High Court.
Mukeshkumar Rasikbhai Shah is a judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of Patna High Court. He is also former judge of Gujarat High Court.
Rakesh Ranjan Prasad was an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Manipur High Court.
Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel is an Indian judge. Presently,he is serving as the Chairperson of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal. He is former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court and Judge of Jharkhand High Court and Gujarat High Court.
Justice Nishar Ahemad Kureshi is an Indian judge. He is former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and former Chief Justice of Tripura High Court. He is former Judge of Bombay High Court and Gujarat High Court,of which he has also served as an Acting Chief Justice.
Sanjib Banerjee is an Indian judge presently serving as the Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. He has previously served as the Chief Justice of Madras High Court and a Judge in Calcutta High Court.
Justice Ravindra Maithani is an Indian Judge at the High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital since December 2018. He is due to retire not earlier than June 2027.
Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier KCSI,KCIE was a British Indian judge and the first Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
Munishwar Nath Bhandari is an Indian Judge. He is former Chief Justice of Madras High Court. 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.
Ravi Swaroop Dhavan was an Indian Judge and former Chief justice of the Patna High Court. He was the son of Justice Shanti Swaroop Dhavan,the 7th Governor of West Bengal. He was brother to Rajeev Dhavan.
