Chief Justices of High Courts of India, 2013

There were only 21 high courts in India. But this year, the central government has constituted three new high courts in the North-eastern states – Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya and the total number of High Courts in the country has been increased from 21 to 24.

Here is the list of present chief justices of high courts of India.

Name of the High Court	Name of the Chief Justice	Date of the Joining in the present High Court	Date of Retirement
Allahabad	Shri Shiva Kirti Singh	04-02-13	13-11-13
Andhra Pradesh	Shri N.V. Ramana	ACJ 27-03-13	27-08-19
Bombay	Shri Mohit Shantilal Shah	26-06-10	09-09-15
Calcutta	Shri Arun Kumar Mishra	14-12-12	03-09-17
Chhatisgarh	Shri Yatindra Singh	22-10-12	09-10-14
Delhi	Shri Darmar Murugesan	26-09-12	10-06-13
Guwahati	Shri Adarsh Kumar Goel	20-12-11	07-07-15
Gujarat	Shri Bhaskar Bhattacharya	21-07-12	29-09-14
Himachal Pradesh	Shri Ajay M. Khanwilkar	01-04-13	30-07-19
Jammu & Kashmir	Shri Mahesh Mittal Kumar	08-06-12	05-01-15
Jharkhand	Shri Prakash Chandra Tatia	11-09-11	04-08-13
Karnataka	Shri Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	07-03-13	11-08-16
Kerala	Smt. Manjula Chellur	26-09-12	05-12-17
Madhya Pradesh	Shri Sharad Arvind Bobde	16-10-12	24-04-18
Madras	Shri Rajesh Kumar Agrawal	ACJ07-02-13	05-05-15
Manipur	Shri Abhay Manohar Sapre	23-03-13	28-08-16
Meghalaya	Smt. T. Meena Kumari	23-03-13	03-08-13
Orissa	Shri Chokalingam Nagappan	27-02-13	04-10-13
Patna	Smt. Rekha Manharlal Doshit	21-06-10	13-12-14
Punjab & Haryana	Shri A. K. Sikri	23-09-12	07-03-16
Rajasthan	Shri Amitava Roy	02-01-13	01-03-15
Sikkim	Shri P. C. Kuriakose	28-03-13	02-10-13
Tripura	Shri Deepak Gupta	23-03-13	07-05-17
Uttarakhand	Shri Barin Ghosh	12-08-10	05-06-14
*Acting Chief Justice

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