List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay explained

This is a list of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay. It was in existence from 1824 to 1862, when the Bombay High Court was founded. The role of the judges of the court was to defend, on behalf of the British Crown, the interests of the people of Bombay against the East India Company.[1]

The Supreme Court was preceded by the Recorder's Court, established in 1798.

List

PictureChief JusticeTook office
1Sir William Syer [2] 1798Died 1802
2Sir James Mackintosh[3] 1803
3Sir John Henry Newbolt1811
4Sir Alexander Anstruther1812Died 1819
5Sir D. Evans1820Died 1821
6Sir Edward West1822Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1823
6Sir Edward West[4] 1823 first year was in the Recorder's Court
7Sir James Dewar1829
8Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton1831
9Sir John Wither Awdry1839
10Sir Henry Roper1840
11Sir David Pollock1846
12Sir Thomas Erskine Perry1847
13Sir William Yardley[5] 1852
14Sir Matthew Richard Sausse1859became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 1862
14Sir Mathew Richard Sausse18621866
15Sir Richard Couch18661870
16Sir Michael Roberts Westropp18701882
17Sir Charles Sargent18821895
18Sir Charles Frederick Farran18951898
19Sir Louis Addin Kershaw18981899
20Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins18991908
21Sir Basil Scott19081919
22Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod19191926
23Sir Amberson Barrington Marten19261930
24Sir John William Fisher Beaumont19301943
25Sir Leonard Stone19431947
After Independence
26Sir Leonard Stone 19471948
27Mahommedali Currim Chagla19481958
28Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani19581965
2919654 February 1966
5 February 196631 July 1966
30Sohrab Peshotan Kotval1 August 196626 September 1972
31K. Kalyandas Desai27 September 197226 October 1972
32Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala27 October 19725 October 1978
33B. N. Deshmukh6 October 197818 November 1980
3419 November 198011 January 1981
12 January 198111 August 1982
3512 August 198230 August 1982
31 August 198214 March 1983
36Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar15 March 198314 March 1984
37Konda Madhava Reddy8 April 198421 October 1985
38Madhukar Hiralal Kania23 June 19861 May 1987
39Chittatosh Mookerjee2 November 198731 December 1990
40Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai7 January 199113 December 1992
41Manoj Kumar Mukherjee9 January 199314 December 1993
42Sujata Manohar15 January 19947 November 1994
43Anandamoy Bhattacharjee21 April 19941 April 1995
44Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah2 August 19959 December 1998
45Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal3 February 199928 January 2000
46Bisheshwar Prasad Singh31 March 200014 December 2001
47Chunilal Karsandas Thakker31 December 20017 June 2004
48Dalveer Bhandari25 July 200427 October 2005
49Kshitij R. Vyas25 February 200618 July 2006
50Harjit Singh Bedi3 October 200612 January 2007
51Swatanter Kumar31 March 200730 December 2009
52Anil Ramesh Dave11 February 201029 April 2010
53Mohit Shantilal Shah26 June 20108 September 2015
54Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela15 February 201610 August 2016
55Manjula Chellur22 August 20164 December 2017
565 December 201712 August 2018
5713 August 201828 October 2018
29 October 20186 April 2019
58Pradeep Nandrajog7 April 201923 February 2020
5924 February 202019 March 2020
20 March 202027 April 2020
60Dipankar Datta28 April 202011 December 2022
61Ramesh Devkinandan Dhanuka28 May 202330 May 2023
62Nitin Jamdar30 May 202328 July 2023
63Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya29 July 2023Present

See also

Notes and References

  1. 29079. West, Edward. Maxine L.. Berg.
  2. The Asiatic annual register, or: View of the history of Hindustan ..., Volume 1
  3. Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31
  4. Book: Joseph Haydn. The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire. 23 September 2013. 1851. Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans. 272.
  5. Book: J. HIGGINBOTHAM. The Bombay Miscellany. 23 September 2013. 1862. 640.