High Court is the ‘Highest Judicial Court’ in an Indian State and all other Courts of the State work under it. It is termed as the second-highest in the country after the Supreme Court of India.
The High Court is the highest court in a state in India. Articles 214 to 231 in the Indian Constitution talk about the High Courts, their organisation and powers. The Parliament can also provide for the establishment of one High Court for two or more states.
According to Article 214, each state of India shall have a High Court. However, Article 231 also mentions that there can be a common High Court for two or more States or for two or more states and a union territory. There are 25 High Courts in India, six having control over more than one State/UT. Delhi has a High Court of its own among the Union Territories. Each High Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and such other judges as appointed by the President of India.
List of High Courts of India
There are 25 High Courts present in India. The list of High Courts of India is given below:
Year Name Territorial Jurisdiction Seat & Bench 1862 Bombay MaharashtraDadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman DiuGoa Seat: Mumbai
Bench: Panaji, Aurangabad, and Nagpur
1862 Kolkata West Bengal
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Seat: Kolkata
Bench: Port Blair
1862 Madras Tamil Nadu
Pondicherry
Seat: Chennai
Bench: Madurai
1866 Allahabad Uttar Pradesh Seat: Allahabad
Bench: Lucknow
1884 Karnataka Karnataka Seat: Bengaluru
Bench: Dharwad and Gulbarga
1916 Patna Bihar Patna 1948 Guwahati Assam
Nagaland
Mizoram
Arunachal Pradesh
Seat: Guwahati
Bench: Kohima, Aizawl, and Itanagar
1949 Odisha Odisha Cuttack 1949 Rajasthan Rajasthan Seat: Jodhpur
Bench: Jaipur
1956 Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Seat: Jabalpur
Bench: Gwalior and Indore
1958 Kerala Kerala & Lakshadweep Ernakulam 1960 Gujarat Gujarat Ahmedabad 1966 Delhi Delhi Delhi 1971 Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Shimla 1975 Punjab & Haryana Punjab, Haryana & Chandigarh Chandigarh 1975 Sikkim Sikkim Gangtok 2000 Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh Bilaspur 2000 Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Nainital 2000 Jharkhand Jharkhand Ranchi 2013 Tripura Tripura Agartala 2013 Manipur Manipur Imphal 2013 Meghalaya Meghalaya Shillong 2019 Telangana Telangana Hyderabad 2019 Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Amravati 2019 Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh
(Note: In 1928, Jammu & Kashmir High Court was established. Post-bi-furcation of J&K into two union territories; there is now a common high court.)
Jammu and Kashmir
Ladakh
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