High Courts in India: Know the list of All 25 High Courts in India

The right to constitutional remedies and the Right against exploitation are two fundamental rights that every citizen in India has. To implement these rights it is necessary to have a judiciary system in the country. A high court is one of the most important parts of the Indian Judiciary. In case a person is not satisfied with the judgement of the session court then he has the right to appeal to the high court.

You should know that a high court is the “Highest Judicial court in an Indian State”. Questions are often asked from the list of high courts in India in different competitive exams. To help students, we are going to provide the list of all high courts in India with their year of establishment, Act of Establishment, Chief justice, and jurisdiction area.

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Go through the list of all 25 high courts in India as explained in the following table.

Name of the court	Date of Establishment	Chief Justice	Area of Jurisdiction
Allahabad High Court	17 March 1866	Rajesh Bindal	Lucknow
Andhra Pradesh High Court	1 January 2019	Prashant Kumar Mishra	Amaravati
Bombay High Court	14 August 1862	Dipankar Dutta	Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Maharashtra,
Calcutta High Court	2 July 1862	Prakash Shrivastava	Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal Kolkata, Port Blair
Chhattisgarh High Court	1 November 2000	Arup Kumar Goswami	Chhattisgarh
Delhi High Court	31 October 1966	Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel	Delhi
Gauhati High Court	1 March 1948	Sudhanshu Dhulia	Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland
Gujarat High Court	1 May 1960	Aravind Kumar	Gujarat
Himachal Pradesh High Court	25 January 1971	Mohammed Rafiq	Himachal Pradesh
High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh	26 March 1928	Pankaj Mithal	Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh
Jharkhand High Court	15 November 2000	Ravi Ranjan	Jharkhand
Karnataka High Court	1884	Ritu Raj Awasthi	Karnataka
Kerala High Court	1 November 1956	S Manikumar	Kerala, Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh High Court	2 January 1936	Ravi Malimath	Madhya Pradesh
Madras High Court	15 August 1862	Munishwar Nath Bhandan	Tamil Nadu, Puducherry
Manipur High Court	25 March 2013	P.V. Sanjay Kumar	Manipur
Meghalaya High Court	23 March 2013	Sanin Banerjee	Meghalaya
Odisha High Court	3 April 1948	S Muralidhar	Odisha
Patna High Court	2 September 1916	Sanjay Karol
Punjab and Haryana High Court	15 August 1947	Ravi Shankar Jha	Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab
Rajasthan High Court	21 June 1949	Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi	Rajasthan
Sikkim High Court	16 May 1975	Biswanath Somadder	Sikkim
Telangana High Court	1 January 2019	Satish Chandra Sharma	Telangana
Tripura High Court	26 March 2013	Indrajit Mahanty	Tripura
Uttarakhand High Court	9 November 2000	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan	Uttarakhand

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