List of current Indian chief justices explained

The Indian judiciary consists of the Supreme Court of India, which is the highest court in the country and the constituent courts. The Supreme Court serves as the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India and consists of 33 judges headed by the Chief Justice of India.^[1] The High Courts are the top judicial bodies in individual states, controlled and managed by Chief Justices of the respective courts. There are 25 High Courts in the country with seven of them having multiple jurisdictions. The High Courts manage a system of sub-ordinate courts headed by the various District and Session Courts in their respective jurisdictions. As per the Constitution of India, the Chief Justice, the other judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts are appointed by the President of India.^[2]

List of chief justices

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Name	Image	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Appointed By
Supreme Court of India	Sanjiv Khanna				Droupadi Murmu

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Jurisdiction	Name	Image	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Appointed By
Allahabad High Court	Uttar Pradesh	Arun Bhansali				Droupadi Murmu
Andhra Pradesh High Court	Andhra Pradesh	Dhiraj Singh Thakur
Bombay High Court	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Goa, Maharashtra	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
Calcutta High Court	Andaman and Nicobar, West Bengal	T. S. Sivagnanam
Chhattisgarh High Court	Chhattisgarh	Ramesh Sinha
Delhi High Court	Delhi	Manmohan
Gauhati High Court	Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland	Vijay Bishnoi
Gujarat High Court	Gujarat	Sunita Agarwal
Himachal Pradesh High Court	Himachal Pradesh	Tarlok Singh Chauhan ^†
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court	Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh	Tashi Rabstan
Jharkhand High Court	Jharkhand	M. S. Ramachandra Rao
Karnataka High Court	Karnataka	Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria
Kerala High Court	Kerala, Lakshadweep	Nitin Madhukar Jamdar
Madhya Pradesh High Court	Madhya Pradesh	Suresh Kumar Kait
Madras High Court	Puducherry, Tamil Nadu	Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram
Manipur High Court	Manipur	D. Krishnakumar
Meghalaya High Court	Meghalaya	Indra Prasanna Mukerji
Orissa High Court	Odisha	Chakradhari Sharan Singh
Patna High Court	Bihar	K. Vinod Chandran
Punjab and Haryana High Court	Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab	Sheel Nagu
Rajasthan High Court	Rajasthan	Manindra Mohan Shrivastava
Sikkim High Court	Sikkim	Biswanath Somadder				Ram Nath Kovind
Telangana High Court	Telangana	Alok Aradhe				Droupadi Murmu
Tripura High Court	Tripura	Aparesh Kumar Singh
Uttarakhand High Court	Uttarakhand	Manoj Kumar Tiwari ^†

^† - acting Chief Justice

See also

• List of current Indian governors, List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators
• List of current Indian chief ministers, List of current Indian deputy chief ministers
• List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairpersons
• List of current Indian opposition leaders
• List of chief justices of India
• List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India
• List of sitting judges of High Courts of India

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rule of law index 2016 . Justice Project . 13 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150429071718/http://data.worldjusticeproject.org/ . 29 April 2015 . live.
2. Web site: Memorandum of procedure of appointment of Supreme Court Judges . . 5 May 2023 . 9 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240309100126/https://doj.gov.in/memorandum-of-procedure-of-appointment-of-supreme-court-judges/ . live .