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Delhi High Court

March 08, 2023

The High Court of Delhi (IAST: dillī uchcha nyāyālaya) was established on 31 October 1966, through the Delhi High Court Act, 1966, with four judges, Chief Justice K. S. Hegde, Justice I. D. Dua, Justice H. R. Khanna and Justice S. K. Kapur.[1] The High Court currently has a sanctioned strength of 45 permanent judges and 15 additional judges.[1]

Delhi High Court
Established31 October 1966; 56 years ago (1966-10-31)
JurisdictionDelhi
LocationShershah Road, Justice SB Marg, New Delhi
Coordinates28°36′32″N 77°14′10″E / 28.6090°N 77.2361°E / 28.6090; 77.2361Coordinates: 28°36′32″N 77°14′10″E / 28.6090°N 77.2361°E / 28.6090; 77.2361
Composition methodPresidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India
Websitedelhihighcourt.nic.in
Chief Justice
CurrentlySatish Chandra Sharma
Since28 June 2022

History

In 1882, the High Court of Judicature at Lahore was established with jurisdiction over the provinces of Punjab and Delhi. This jurisdiction lasted until 1947 and the Partition of India.

The High Courts (Punjab) Order, 1947 established a new High Court for the province of East Punjab with effect from 15 August 1947.[2] The 'India (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order, 1947' provided that any reference in existing Indian law to the High Court of Judicature at Lahore be replaced by a reference to the High Court of East Punjab.[1]

The High Court of East Punjab functioned from the Peterhoff in Shimla until it was moved to Chandigarh, along with the secretariat of the Punjab government in 1954-55. The High Court of Punjab, as it later came to be called, exercised jurisdiction over Delhi through a Circuit Bench which dealt with the cases pertaining to the Union Territory of Delhi and the Delhi Administration.[1]

In view of the importance of Delhi, its population and other considerations, the Indian Parliament, by enacting the Delhi High Court Act, 1966, and established the High Court of Delhi effective from 31 October 1966.[1] By virtue of Section 3(1) of the Delhi High Court Act, the Central Government was empowered to appoint a date by notification in the official gazette, establishing a High Court for the Union Territory of Delhi. The appointed date was 31 October 1966.

The High Court of Delhi initially exercised jurisdiction not only over the Union Territory of Delhi but also Himachal Pradesh. The High Court of Delhi had a Himachal Pradesh Bench at Shimla in a building called Ravenswood. The High Court of Delhi continued to exercise jurisdiction over Himachal Pradesh until the State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 came into force on 25 January 1971.[1]

Current Judges of Delhi HC

Following is the list of sitting Judges including Chief Justice of High Court of Delhi:[3]

Sr. No. Designation Name
1 Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma
2 Justice Siddharth Mridul
3 Justice Manmohan
4 Justice Rajiv Shakdher
5 Justice Suresh Kumar Kait
6 Justice Mukta Gupta
7 Justice Najmi Waziri
8 Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva
9 Justice Vibhu Bakhru
10 Justice V. Kameswar Rao
11 Justice Yashwant Varma
12 Justice Anu Malhotra
13 Justice Yogesh Khanna
14 Justice Rekha Palli
15 Justice Prathiba M. Singh
16 Justice Navin Chawla
17 Justice C. Hari Shankar
18 Justice Chandra Dhari Singh
19 Justice Subramonium Prasad
20 Justice Jyoti Singh
21 Justice Prateek Jalan
22 Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani
23 Justice Sanjeev Narula
24 Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri
25 Justice Talwant Singh
26 Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar
27 Justice Jasmeet Singh
28 Justice Amit Bansal
29 Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav
30 Justice Neena Bansal Krishna
31 Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma
32 Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta
33 Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain
34 Justice Poonam A. Bamba
35 Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma
36 Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju
37 Justice Mini Pushkarna
38 Justice Vikas Mahajan
39 Justice Tushar Rao Gedela
40 Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora
41 Justice Sachin Datta
42 Justice Amit Mahajan
43 Justice Gaurang Kanth
44 Justice Saurabh Banerjee
45 Justice Anish Dayal
46 Justice Amit Sharma

Original Side Civil Jurisdiction

The High Court of Delhi is territory.[4] This means that civil cases can be filed directly in the High Court, whereas the High Court generally only has appellate civil jurisdiction otherwise. The other High Courts which have original side jurisdiction are Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, and Himachal Pradesh.[5]

Backlog

As per the report released on 2006–08, Delhi High court has a long list of pending cases. The backlog is such that it would take 466 years to resolve them. In a bid to restore public trust and confidence, Delhi court spent 5 minutes per case and disposed of 94,000 cases in 2008–10.[6]

Former Chief Justices

# Chief Justices Tenure
Start End
1 K. S. Hegde 31 Oct 1966 16 Jul 1967
- M K M Ismail (acting) 17 Jul 1967 13 Nov 1967
2 I. D. Dua 14 Nov 1967 01 Aug 1969
3 H. R. Khanna 01 Aug 1969 22 Sep 1970
4 Hardayal Hardy 22 Sep 1971 15 May 1972
5 Narain Andley 15 May 1972 04 Jun 1974
6 T. V. R. Tatachari 04 Jun 1974 16 Oct 1978
7 V. S. Deshpande 16 Oct 1978 27 Mar 1980
8 Prakash Narain 08 Jan 1981 06 Aug 1985
9 Rajinder Sachar 06 Aug 1985 22 Dec 1985
10 D. K. Kapur 22 Dec 1985 20 Aug 1986
11 T.P.S. Chawla 20 Aug 1986 16 Aug 1987
- R. N. Aggarwal (acting) 16 Aug 1987 21 Aug 1987
12 Yogeshwar Dayal 21 Aug 1987 18 Mar 1988
13 Rabindranath Pyne 18 Mar 1988 28 Sep 1990
14 Milap Chand Jain 28 Nov 1990 21 Jul 1991
15 G. C. Mittal 05 Aug 1991 04 Mar 1994
16 M. Jagannadha Rao 12 Apr 1994 21 Mar 1997
17 Mahinder Narain 21 Mar 1997 30 Dec 1999
18 Sam Nariman Variava 31 Dec 1999 15 Mar 2000
19 Arijit Pasayat 10 May 2000 19 Oct 2001
20 S.B. Sinha 26 Nov 2001 01 Oct 2002
21 B. C. Patel 05 Mar 2003 07 Aug 2005
22 Markandey Katju 12 Oct 2005 10 Apr 2006
23 Mukundakam Sharma 04 Dec 2006 09 Apr 2008
24 Ajit Prakash Shah 11 May 2008 12 Feb 2010
25 Dipak Misra 24 May 2010 10 Oct 2011
26 D Murugesan 26 Sep 2012 10 Jun 2013
- Badar Durrez Ahmed (acting) 10 Jun 2013 01 Sept 2013
27 N. V. Ramana 02 Sep 2013 16 Feb 2014
- Badar Durrez Ahmed (acting) 17 Feb 2014 20 Apr 2014
28 Gorla Rohini 21 Apr 2014 13 Apr 2017
- Gita Mittal (acting) 14 Apr 2017 10 Aug 2018
29 Rajendra Menon 11 Aug 2018 06 Jun 2019
30 Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel 07 Jun 2019 12 Mar 2022
- Vipin Sanghi (acting) 13 Mar 2022 27 Jun 2022
31 Satish Chandra Sharma 28 Jun 2022 Incumbent

District Courts

Main article: Courts in Delhi

The National Capital Territory of Delhi has 7 District Courts Complex that function under the High Court of Delhi. These 7 are physical locations of the district courts, whereas actually there are 11 district courts headed by individual District Judges. The Tis Hazari complex, Rohini complex and Saket complex hosts 2 Districts each, while the Karkardooma complex hosts 3 Districts and the remaining 3 complexes (Patiala, Dwarka and Rouse Avenue) host 1 District each.

The list of 7 District Courts Complex in Delhi is as follows:

S.No. Year of
establishment 		Districts Name of Court
1 1958 Central Delhi and West Delhi Tis Hazari Courts Complex
2 1977 New Delhi Patiala House Courts Complex
3 1993 East Delhi, North-East Delhi and Shahdara Karkardooma Courts Complex
4 2005 North Delhi and North-West Delhi Rohini Courts Complex
5 2008 South-West Delhi Dwarka Courts Complex
6 2010 South Delhi and South-East Delhi Saket Courts Complex
7 2019 Central Delhi and West Delhi, CBI Courts or labour Court. Rouse Avenue Courts Complex[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "History – Delhi HC". delhihighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  2. ^ "The High Courts (Punjab) Order, 1947)" (PDF). Www.delhihighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Chief Justice and sitting Judges of Delhi HC". High Court of Delhi.
  4. ^ "Delhi High Court (Original Side) Rules, 2018" (PDF). Delhi High Court.
  5. ^ "Indian Courts". Daksh. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  6. ^ "At 5 minutes per case, Delhi high court clears 94,000 in 2 years". The Times of India. 30 May 2012.
  7. ^ "Rouse Avenue court complex opens today". The Times of India. 9 April 2019.

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delhi, high, court, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, october. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Delhi High Court news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message The High Court of Delhi IAST dilli uchcha nyayalaya was established on 31 October 1966 through the Delhi High Court Act 1966 with four judges Chief Justice K S Hegde Justice I D Dua Justice H R Khanna and Justice S K Kapur 1 The High Court currently has a sanctioned strength of 45 permanent judges and 15 additional judges 1 Delhi High CourtEstablished31 October 1966 56 years ago 1966 10 31 JurisdictionDelhiLocationShershah Road Justice SB Marg New DelhiCoordinates28 36 32 N 77 14 10 E 28 6090 N 77 2361 E 28 6090 77 2361 Coordinates 28 36 32 N 77 14 10 E 28 6090 N 77 2361 E 28 6090 77 2361Composition methodPresidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of IndiaWebsitedelhihighcourt nic inChief JusticeCurrentlySatish Chandra SharmaSince28 June 2022 Contents 1 History 2 Current Judges of Delhi HC 3 Original Side Civil Jurisdiction 4 Backlog 5 Former Chief Justices 6 District Courts 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditIn 1882 the High Court of Judicature at Lahore was established with jurisdiction over the provinces of Punjab and Delhi This jurisdiction lasted until 1947 and the Partition of India The High Courts Punjab Order 1947 established a new High Court for the province of East Punjab with effect from 15 August 1947 2 The India Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws Order 1947 provided that any reference in existing Indian law to the High Court of Judicature at Lahore be replaced by a reference to the High Court of East Punjab 1 The High Court of East Punjab functioned from the Peterhoff in Shimla until it was moved to Chandigarh along with the secretariat of the Punjab government in 1954 55 The High Court of Punjab as it later came to be called exercised jurisdiction over Delhi through a Circuit Bench which dealt with the cases pertaining to the Union Territory of Delhi and the Delhi Administration 1 In view of the importance of Delhi its population and other considerations the Indian Parliament by enacting the Delhi High Court Act 1966 and established the High Court of Delhi effective from 31 October 1966 1 By virtue of Section 3 1 of the Delhi High Court Act the Central Government was empowered to appoint a date by notification in the official gazette establishing a High Court for the Union Territory of Delhi The appointed date was 31 October 1966 The High Court of Delhi initially exercised jurisdiction not only over the Union Territory of Delhi but also Himachal Pradesh The High Court of Delhi had a Himachal Pradesh Bench at Shimla in a building called Ravenswood The High Court of Delhi continued to exercise jurisdiction over Himachal Pradesh until the State of Himachal Pradesh Act 1970 came into force on 25 January 1971 1 Current Judges of Delhi HC EditFollowing is the list of sitting Judges including Chief Justice of High Court of Delhi 3 Sr No Designation Name1 Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma2 Justice Siddharth Mridul3 Justice Manmohan4 Justice Rajiv Shakdher5 Justice Suresh Kumar Kait6 Justice Mukta Gupta7 Justice Najmi Waziri8 Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva9 Justice Vibhu Bakhru10 Justice V Kameswar Rao11 Justice Yashwant Varma12 Justice Anu Malhotra13 Justice Yogesh Khanna14 Justice Rekha Palli15 Justice Prathiba M Singh16 Justice Navin Chawla17 Justice C Hari Shankar18 Justice Chandra Dhari Singh19 Justice Subramonium Prasad20 Justice Jyoti Singh21 Justice Prateek Jalan22 Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani23 Justice Sanjeev Narula24 Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri25 Justice Talwant Singh26 Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar27 Justice Jasmeet Singh28 Justice Amit Bansal29 Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav30 Justice Neena Bansal Krishna31 Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma32 Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta33 Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain34 Justice Poonam A Bamba35 Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma36 Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju37 Justice Mini Pushkarna38 Justice Vikas Mahajan39 Justice Tushar Rao Gedela40 Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora41 Justice Sachin Datta42 Justice Amit Mahajan43 Justice Gaurang Kanth44 Justice Saurabh Banerjee45 Justice Anish Dayal46 Justice Amit SharmaOriginal Side Civil Jurisdiction EditThe High Court of Delhi is territory 4 This means that civil cases can be filed directly in the High Court whereas the High Court generally only has appellate civil jurisdiction otherwise The other High Courts which have original side jurisdiction are Bombay Calcutta Madras and Himachal Pradesh 5 Backlog EditAs per the report released on 2006 08 Delhi High court has a long list of pending cases The backlog is such that it would take 466 years to resolve them In a bid to restore public trust and confidence Delhi court spent 5 minutes per case and disposed of 94 000 cases in 2008 10 6 Former Chief Justices Edit Chief Justices TenureStart End1 K S Hegde 31 Oct 1966 16 Jul 1967 M K M Ismail acting 17 Jul 1967 13 Nov 19672 I D Dua 14 Nov 1967 01 Aug 19693 H R Khanna 01 Aug 1969 22 Sep 19704 Hardayal Hardy 22 Sep 1971 15 May 19725 Narain Andley 15 May 1972 04 Jun 19746 T V R Tatachari 04 Jun 1974 16 Oct 19787 V S Deshpande 16 Oct 1978 27 Mar 19808 Prakash Narain 08 Jan 1981 06 Aug 19859 Rajinder Sachar 06 Aug 1985 22 Dec 198510 D K Kapur 22 Dec 1985 20 Aug 198611 T P S Chawla 20 Aug 1986 16 Aug 1987 R N Aggarwal acting 16 Aug 1987 21 Aug 198712 Yogeshwar Dayal 21 Aug 1987 18 Mar 198813 Rabindranath Pyne 18 Mar 1988 28 Sep 199014 Milap Chand Jain 28 Nov 1990 21 Jul 199115 G C Mittal 05 Aug 1991 04 Mar 199416 M Jagannadha Rao 12 Apr 1994 21 Mar 199717 Mahinder Narain 21 Mar 1997 30 Dec 199918 Sam Nariman Variava 31 Dec 1999 15 Mar 200019 Arijit Pasayat 10 May 2000 19 Oct 200120 S B Sinha 26 Nov 2001 01 Oct 200221 B C Patel 05 Mar 2003 07 Aug 200522 Markandey Katju 12 Oct 2005 10 Apr 200623 Mukundakam Sharma 04 Dec 2006 09 Apr 200824 Ajit Prakash Shah 11 May 2008 12 Feb 201025 Dipak Misra 24 May 2010 10 Oct 201126 D Murugesan 26 Sep 2012 10 Jun 2013 Badar Durrez Ahmed acting 10 Jun 2013 01 Sept 201327 N V Ramana 02 Sep 2013 16 Feb 2014 Badar Durrez Ahmed acting 17 Feb 2014 20 Apr 201428 Gorla Rohini 21 Apr 2014 13 Apr 2017 Gita Mittal acting 14 Apr 2017 10 Aug 201829 Rajendra Menon 11 Aug 2018 06 Jun 201930 Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel 07 Jun 2019 12 Mar 2022 Vipin Sanghi acting 13 Mar 2022 27 Jun 202231 Satish Chandra Sharma 28 Jun 2022 IncumbentDistrict Courts EditMain article Courts in Delhi The National Capital Territory of Delhi has 7 District Courts Complex that function under the High Court of Delhi These 7 are physical locations of the district courts whereas actually there are 11 district courts headed by individual District Judges The Tis Hazari complex Rohini complex and Saket complex hosts 2 Districts each while the Karkardooma complex hosts 3 Districts and the remaining 3 complexes Patiala Dwarka and Rouse Avenue host 1 District each The list of 7 District Courts Complex in Delhi is as follows S No Year of establishment Districts Name of Court1 1958 Central Delhi and West Delhi Tis Hazari Courts Complex2 1977 New Delhi Patiala House Courts Complex3 1993 East Delhi North East Delhi and Shahdara Karkardooma Courts Complex4 2005 North Delhi and North West Delhi Rohini Courts Complex5 2008 South West Delhi Dwarka Courts Complex6 2010 South Delhi and South East Delhi Saket Courts Complex7 2019 Central Delhi and West Delhi CBI Courts or labour Court Rouse Avenue Courts Complex 7 See also EditSubordinate Courts Of Delhi High Court High courts of India University of Oxford v Rameshwari Photocopy ServiceReferences Edit a b c d e f History Delhi HC delhihighcourt nic in Retrieved 2 March 2012 The High Courts Punjab Order 1947 PDF Www delhihighcourt nic in Retrieved 4 October 2017 Chief Justice and sitting Judges of Delhi HC High Court of Delhi Delhi High Court Original Side Rules 2018 PDF Delhi High Court Indian Courts Daksh Retrieved 4 May 2020 At 5 minutes per case Delhi high court clears 94 000 in 2 years The Times of India 30 May 2012 Rouse Avenue court complex opens today The Times of India 9 April 2019 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Delhi High Court Official website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Delhi High Court amp oldid 1127529364, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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