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Calcutta High Court

Calcutta High Court.jpg
Calcutta High Court Building

Established 1 July 1862; 156 years ago (1862-07-01)
Country
 India
Location Principal Seat: Kolkata, West Bengal

Circuit Benches: Jalpaiguri & Port Blair (A & N Islands)
Coordinates
22°34′6″N 88°20′36″E / 22.56833°N 88.34333°E / 22.56833; 88.34333Coordinates: 22°34′6″N 88°20′36″E / 22.56833°N 88.34333°E / 22.56833; 88.34333
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

No. of positions		 72
{54 Permanent ; 18 Addl.}
Website calcuttahighcourt.gov.in
Chief Justice
Currently
Biswanath Somadder (acting)[1]
Since 1 January 2019

The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The High Court building's design is based on the Cloth Hall, Ypres, in Belgium.[2]


The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 72.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Principal seat and benches


  • 3 Chief Justice


  • 4 List of Chief Justices


  • 5 Building


  • 6 Gallery


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





History


The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by Letters patent granted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, bearing date 26 June 1862, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was established as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William on 1 July 1862 under the High Courts Act, 1861, which was preceded by the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William.


Despite the name of the city having officially changed from Calcutta to Kolkata in 2001, the Court, as an institution retained the old name. The bill to rename it as Kolkata High Court was approved by the Cabinet on 5 July 2016 along with the renaming of its two other counterparts in Chennai and Mumbai.[3] However, the High Court still retains the old name.



Principal seat and benches


The seat of the Calcutta High Court is at Kolkata, capital of West Bengal. As per the Calcutta High Court (Extension of Jurisdiction) Act, 1953, the Calcutta High Court's jurisdiction was extended to cover Chandernagore (now called Chandannagar) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as of 2 May 1950. The Calcutta High Court extended its Circuit Bench in Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and in Jalpaiguri, the divisional headquarters of the North Bengal region. On 7 February 2019, President Ram Nath Kovind finalised the opening of the other circuit bench in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal with the jurisdiction area[4] within 5 districts- Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar.



Chief Justice


The current Chief Justice (Acting) is Biswanath Somadder.[5]


Sir Barnes Peacock was the first Chief Justice of the High Court. He assumed the charge when the court was founded on 1 July 1862. Justice Romesh Chandra Mitra was the first Indian officiating Chief Justice and Justice Phani Bhushan Chakravartti was the first Indian permanent Chief Justice of the court. The longest serving Chief Justice was Justice Sankar Prasad Mitra.


On 20 September 1871, the acting Chief Justice, Sir John Paxton Norman, was murdered on the steps of the courthouse by Wahabi Muslims named Abdullah.[6][7]



List of Chief Justices


For Chief Justices of the previous Supreme Court of Bengal see Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William.























































































































































































Chief Justice
 Term

Sir Barnes Peacock
 1862–1870

Sir Richard Couch
 1870–1875

Sir Richard Garth
 1875–1886
Sir William Comer Petheram
 1886–1896
Sir Francis William Maclean
 1896–1909
Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins
 1909–1915
Sir Lancelot Sanderson
 1915–1926
Sir George Claus Rankin
 1926–1934
Sir Harold Derbyshire
 1934–1946
Sir Arthur Trevor Harries
 1946–1952

Phani Bhusan Chakravartti
 1952–1958

Kulada Charan Das Gupta
 1958–1959

Surajit Chandra Lahiri
 1959–1961

Himansu Kumar Bose
 1961–1966

Deep Narayan Sinha
 1966–1970

Prasanta Bihari Mukharji
 1970–1972
Sankar Prasad Mitra
 1972–1979

Amarendra Nath Sen
 1979–1981
Sambhu Chandra Ghose
 1981–1983

Samarendra Chandra Deb
 January 1983 – February 1983
Satish Chandra
 1983–1986

Anil Kumar Sen
 September 1986 – October 1986

Chittatosh Mookerjee
 1 November 1986 – 1 November 1987

Debi Singh Tewatia
 1 November 1987 – 1988

Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai
 1988–1991
Nagendra Prasad Singh
 4 February 1992 – 14 June 1992

Anandamoy Bhattacharjee
 1992–1994

Krishna Chandra Agarwal
 1994–1996

V. N. Khare
 2 February 1996 – 20 March 1997

Prabha Shankar Mishra
 1997–1998

Ashok Kumar Mathur
 22 December 1999 – 6 June 2004

V. S. Sirpurkar
 20 March 2005 – 11 January 2007

Surinder Singh Nijjar
 8 March 2007 – 16 November 2009

Mohit Shantilal Shah
 2009–2010
Jainarayan Patel
 2010–2012

Arun Kumar Mishra
 2012–2014

Manjula Chellur
 2014–2016

Girish Chandra Gupta
 21 September 2016–30 November 2016

Nishita Nirmal Mhatre (acting)

 1 December 2016–20 September 2017

Rakesh Tiwari (acting)

 20 September 2017– 24 October 2017

Jyotirmay Bhattacharya (acting)
 25 October 2017 – 24 September 2018

Debasish Kar Gupta (acting)
 25 September 2018 – 29 October 2018

Debasish Kar Gupta
 30 October 2018 – 31 December 2018

Biswanath Somadder (acting)
 1 January 2019 – Present


Building


The neo-Gothic High Court building was constructed in 1872, ten years after the establishment of the court itself.
The design, by then government architect Walter Granville, was loosely modelled on the 13th-century Cloth Hall at Ypres, Belgium.[8]
In 1977 another building named High Court Centenary Building or annexed building was inaugurated to reduce the pressure.[9]



Gallery






  • Centenary Building







  • Inside the Calcutta High Court






References





  1. ^ http://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/CJ-and-Judges


  2. ^ "Court's official website". Archived from the original on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2007..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Change of name of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta HC


  4. ^ "Orders/notification of establishment of a bench of Calcutta High Court at Jalpaiguri (English/ Hindi) (07.02.2019)" (PDF). Retrieved 12 February 2019.


  5. ^ "Chief Justices appointed to Five High Courts [Read Notifications] - Bar & Bench". Bar & Bench. 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2018-10-25.


  6. ^ Ivermee, Robert. Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830–1910.


  7. ^ James, Halen. "The Assassination of Lord Mayo : The "First" Jihad?" (PDF). IJAPS,Vol 5, No.2 (July 2009). Retrieved 18 November 2012.


  8. ^ "Court's official website". Archived from the original on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2007.


  9. ^ HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. "CITY SESSIONS COURT, CALCUTTA". calcuttahighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2017.








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