Gujarat High Court

Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court Building
Established	1960
Country	India
Location	Ahmedabad
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorized by	Constitution of India
Decisions are appealed to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	Till 62 years of age
Number of positions	42
Website	http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in/
Chief Justice
Currently	Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya
Since	21 Jul 2012

The Gujarat High Court (Gujarati: ગુજરાત ઉચ્ચ ન્યાયાલય) is the High Court of the state of Gujarat. It was established on 1 May 1960 under the Bombay Re-organisation Act, 1960 after the state split from Bombay State.

The seat of the court is Ahmedabad. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 42.

The Chief Justice

Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya of the Calcutta High Court was transferred to the Gujarat High Court on November 8, 2011 and was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice, replacing Shri Justice Ashok L. Dave, who was officiating as the Chief Justice following the elevation of Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya to the Supreme Court of India. Hon'ble Shri Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya was confirmed as the Chief Justice and was sworn-in by Governor of Gujarat HE Dr Kamla at the Raj Bhavan, Gandhinagar, on July 21, 2012.

The Bench

1. Hon'ble Shri Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya, The Chief Justice
2. Hon'ble Shri Justice Vijay Sahai
3. Hon'ble Shri Justice Ravi Tripathi
4. Hon'ble Shri Justice Jayant Patel
5. Hon'ble Shri Justice Mukesh Shah
6. Hon'ble Shri Justice Kalpesh Jhaveri
7. Hon'ble Shri Justice Akil Kureshi
8. Hon'ble Shri Justice Anant Dave
9. Hon'ble Shri Justice Shailesh Brahmbhatt
10. Hon'ble Ms Justice Harsha Devani
11. Hon'ble Shri Justice M D Shah
12. Hon'ble Smt Justice Abhilasha Kumari
13. Hon'ble Shri Justice Mohinder Pal
14. Hon'ble Shri Justice Kartik Thaker
15. Hon'ble Shri Justice Zahiruddin Saiyed
16. Hon'ble Shri Justice Rajesh Shukla
17. Hon'ble Shri Justice Rashmin Chhaya
18. Hon'ble Shri Justice Jamshed Pardiwala
19. Hon'ble Shri Justice G B Shah
20. Hon'ble Ms Justice Sonia Gokani
21. Hon'ble Shri Justice Chandrakant Soni (Addl.)
22. Hon'ble Shri Justice Ashish Desai (Addl.)
23. Hon'ble Shri Justice Nilay Anjaria (Addl.)
24. Hon'ble Shri Justice Paresh Upadhyay (Addl.)

Former chief justices

• Justice Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai (1 May 1960)
• Justice Kantilal Thakoredas Desai (26 January 1961)
• Justice Jaishanker Manilal Shelat
• Justice Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy
• Justice Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
• Justice Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan
• Justice Seshareddi Obul Reddi
• Justice Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan
• Justice Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar
• Justice Padmanabhan Subramuilanian Poti (28 September 1983)
• Justice P. R. Gokulakrishnan (21 March 1985)
• Justice Ganendra Narayan Ray
• Justice S. Nainar Sundaram
• Justice Bhupinder Nath Kirpal (14 December 1993)
• Justice Gurudas Datta Kamat.
• Justice Kumaran Sreedharan
• Justice K. G. Balakrishnan (16 July 1998)
• Justice D. M. Dharmadhikari
• Justice Daya Saran Sinha
• Justice Bhawani Singh (25 August 2003)
• Justice Y.R. Meena
• Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan
• Justice S.J. Mukh

See also

• High Courts of India

References

1. Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts
2. Judge strength in High Courts increased

External links

• The Gujarat High Court official website