High Courts in India


List of High Courts in India
YearNameTerritorial JurisdictionSeat & Bench
1862BombayMaharashtra

Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu

Goa

Seat: Mumbai

Bench: Panaji, Aurangabad, and Nagpur

1862KolkataWest Bengal

Andaman & Nicobar islands

Seat: Kolkata

Bench: Port Blair

1862MadrasTamil Nadu

Pondicherry

Seat: Chennai

Bench: Madurai

1866AllahabadUttar PradeshSeat: Allahabad

Bench: Lucknow

1884KarnatakaKarnatakaSeat: Bengaluru

Bench: Dharwad and Gulbarga

1916PatnaBiharPatna
1948GuwahatiAssam

Nagaland

Mizoram

Arunachal Pradesh

Seat: Guwahati

Bench: Kohima, Aizawl, and Itanagar

1949OdishaOdishaCuttack
1949RajasthanRajasthanSeat: Jodhpur

Bench: Jaipur

1956Madhya PradeshMadhya PradeshSeat: Jabalpur

Bench: Gwalior and Indore

1958KeralaKerala & LakshadweepErnakulam
1960GujaratGujaratAhmedabad
1966DelhiDelhiDelhi
1971Himachal PradeshHimachal PradeshShimla
1975Punjab & HaryanaPunjab, Haryana & ChandigarhChandigarh
1975SikkimSikkimGangtok
2000ChattisgarhChattisgarhBilaspur
2000UttarakhandUttarakhandNainital
2000JharkhandJharkhandRanchi
2013TripuraTripuraAgartala
2013ManipurManipurImphal
2013MeghalayaMeghalayaShillong
2019TelanganaTelanganaHyderabad
2019Andhra PradeshAndhra PradeshAmravati
2019Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh

(Note: In 1928, Jammu & Kashmir high court was established. Post-bi-furcation of J&K into two union territories; there is now a common high court.)

Jammu and Kashmir

Ladakh

Important Terms related to High Courts in India:

Tribunal – A tribunal is a term for anybody acting judicially, whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title. For example, an advocate appearing before a Court on which a single Judge was sitting could describe that judge as ‘their tribunal’.

Permanent Bench – A permanent bench comprises of one or more High Court judges who sit yearlong at a particular location that is different from the permanent seat of the High Court.

Circuit Bench – A Circuit Bench is for territories which are far-flung but do not have too many matters to justify a full-fledged permanent bench. As a result, once or twice a year, some judges travel to these areas and dispose off all the High Court appeals of that jurisdiction.

Division Bench – In a Division Bench, a case is heard and judged by at least 2 judges.

Full Bench – A Full bench refers to a court of law consisting of a greater-than-normal number of judges.

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