The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India,and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai,and is one of the oldest high courts in India. The High Court has circuit benches at Nagpur and Aurangabad in Maharashtra and Panaji,the capital of Goa.
Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was an Indian jurist who served as the 16th Chief Justice of India,serving from 22 February 1978 to the day he retired on 11 July 1985. Born in Pune in the Bombay Presidency,he was first appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of India on 28 August 1972 and is the longest-serving Chief Justice in India's history at 7 years and 4 months. His nickname was Iron Hands after his well-regarded unwillingness to let anything slip past him.
The Government of Tamil Nadu is the administrative body responsible for the governance of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Chennai is the capital of the state and houses the state executive,legislature and head of judiciary.
Sir Harilal Jekisundas "H. J." Kania was the first Chief Justice of India. He served as the Chief Justice of India from 1950 to 1951. He died while serving in office in 1951.
Ajit Prakash Shah is the former Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India. He was the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court from May 2008 till his retirement in February 2010.
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah was the twelfth Chief Justice of India from 17 December 1970 until his retirement on 21 January 1971. He was born in Ahmedabad.
Veeraswami Ramaswami is an Indian retired judge of the Supreme Court of India and the first judge against whom removal proceedings were initiated in independent India.
Palanisamy Sathasivam is an Indian judge who served as the 40th Chief Justice of India,holding the office from 2013 to 2014. On retirement from his judicial career,Sathasivam was appointed the 21st Governor of Kerala from 5 September 2014 to 4 September 2019. Sathasivam is the second judge from Tamil Nadu to become the CJI,after M. Patanjali Sastri. He is also the first former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to be appointed the Governor of a state. He is the first Governor of Kerala to be appointed by the Narendra Modi Government.
Sanjay Kishan Kaul is a former judge and lawyer who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India since 2017 until upon his retirement in 2023. He has served as the first puisne judge,senior-most after the Chief Justice of India. Also,he has been the ex officio executive chairman of National Legal Services Authority.
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.
Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar was the former Chief Justice of Bombay and Madras High Court. He was born in a Brahmin family Chandurbazar village,in Amravati district. His father Shri N.B. Chandurkar was a distinguished lawyer and a Sanskrit scholar.
Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi is an Indian judge. He is former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and Tripura High Court. He has also served as Judge of Bombay High Court and Gujarat High Court,of which he has also served as an Acting Chief Justice.
The Madras High Court is a High Court in India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is located in Chennai,and is one of the oldest high courts of India along with Calcutta High Court in Kolkata and Bombay High Court in Mumbai. The Madras High Court is one of four charter high courts of colonial India established in the four Presidency Towns of Madras,Bombay,Allahabad and Calcutta by letters patent granted by Queen Victoria,dated 26 June 1862. It exercises original jurisdiction over the city of Chennai,as well as extraordinary original jurisdiction,civil and criminal,under the letters patent and special original jurisdiction for the issue of writs under the Constitution of India. Covering 107 acres,the court complex is one of the largest in the world,second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The four-storey administrative building attracts hundreds of litigants every day.
Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande was an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
B. N. Deshmukh was an Indian Judge and former acting Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.
Ashok Chhotelal Agarwal was an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Madras High Court.
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.
Sir Srinivas Varadachariar was an Indian jurist who was the first Indian chief justice of the Federal Court of India when he served as the acting chief justice of the court between 25 April 1943 and 7 June 1943. He was also a judge of the Madras High Court and of the Federal Court of India. Varadachariar headed the ad-hoc committee of the Constituent Assembly of India,which drafted the provisions to set up the Supreme Court of India.
R. Mahadevan is an Indian judge. He is the acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court,Chennai. On retirement of then chief justice of Madras High Court Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala on 23 May 2024,took charge as acting chief justice of Madras High Court.
