List of High Courts in India

There are 24 High Courts in India. Among them, three have control over more than one State. Among the Union Territories Delhi has a High Court of its own. Each High Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and other judges both appointed by the President of India. Under Article 141, all courts in India — including high courts — are bound by the judgments and orders of the Supreme Court of India by precedence. There is no fixed minimum number of judges for the High Courts, it varies from Court to Court. While the Madras High Court has 75 judges, the Meghalaya High Court has only 03. The constitution does not specify the strength of a high court and leaves it to the discretion of the President. Here we are bringing you the list of High Courts in India and all important facts about them.

List of High Courts in India

The institution of the High Court started in India when the high courts were set up in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras in 1862. The Allahabad High Court was established in 1866.

S.No.	High Court	Year of Establishment	Act of Establishment	Jurisdiction, Principal seat, and Bench (s)	Chief Justice
1.	Allahabad High Court	17 March 1866	Indian High Courts Act, 1861	Jurisdiction: Uttar Pradesh Seat: Allahabad Bench: Lucknow	Govind Mathur
2.	Andhra Pradesh High Court	1 January 2019	Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014	Jurisdiction: Andhra Pradesh Seat: Amravati	Arup Kumar Goswami
3.	Bombay High Court	14 August 1862	Indian High Courts Act, 1861	Jurisdiction: Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Maharashtra Seat: Bombay Bench: Aurangabad, Nagpur, Panaji	Dipankar Datta
4.	Calcutta High Court	1 July 1862	Indian High Courts Act, 1861	Jurisdiction: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal Seat: Calcutta Bench: Port Blair, Jalpaiguri	T. B. Radhakrishnan
5.	Chhattisgarh High Court	1 November 2000	Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000	Jurisdiction: Chhattisgarh Seat: Bilaspur	P. R. Ramachandra Menon
6.	Delhi High Court	31 October 1966	Delhi High Court Act, 1966	Jurisdiction: NCT of Delhi Seat: New Delhi	Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel
7.	Gauhati High Court	1 March 1948	Government of India Act, 1935	Jurisdiction: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland Seat: Guwahati Bench: Aizawl, Itanagar, Kohima	Sudhanshu Dhulia
8.	Gujarat High Court	1 May 1960	Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960	Jurisdiction: Gujarat Seat: Ahmedabad	Vikram Nath
9.	Himachal High Court	25 January 1971	State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970	Jurisdiction: Himachal Pradesh Seat: Shimla	L. Narayana Swamy
10.	Jammu & Kashmir High Court	26 March 1928	Letters Patent issued by then Maharaja of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019	Jurisdiction: Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh Seat: Srinagar/ Jammu	Pankaj Mithal
11.	Jharkhand High Court	15 November 2000	Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000	Jurisdiction: Jharkhand Seat: Ranchi	Ravi Ranjan
12.	Karnataka High Court	1884	Mysore High Court Act, 1884	Jurisdiction: Karnataka Seat: Bengaluru Bench: Dharwad, Kalaburagi	Abhay Shreeniwas Oka
13.	Kerala High Court	1 November 1956	States Reorganisation Act, 1956	Jurisdiction: Kerala, Lakshadweep Seat: Kochi	S. Manikumar
14.	Madhya Pradesh High Court	2 January 1936	Government of India Act, 1935	Jurisdiction: Madhya Pradesh Seat: Jabalpur Bench: Gwalior, Indore	Mohammad Rafiq
15.	Madras High Court	15 August 1862	Indian High Courts Act, 1861	Jurisdiction: Tamil Nadu, Puducherry Seat: Madras Bench: Madurai	Sanjib Banerjee
16.	Manipur High Court	25 March 2013	North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012	Jurisdiction: Manipur Seat: Imphal	Ramalingam Sudhakar
17.	Meghalaya High Court	23 March 2013	North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012	Jurisdiction: Meghalaya Seat: Shillong	Biswanath Somadder
18.	Orrisa High Court	3 April 1948	Orissa High Court Ordinance, 1948	Jurisdiction: Orissa Seat: Cuttack	S. Muralidhar
19.	Patna High Court	2 September 1916	Letters Patent issued by the then British Crown	Jurisdiction: Bihar Seat: Patna	Sanjay Karol
20.	Punjab and Haryana High Court	15 August 1947	Punjab High Court Ordinance, 1947	Jurisdiction: Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab Seat: Chandigarh	Ravi Shankar Jha
21.	Rajasthan High Court	21 June 1949	Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949	Jurisdiction: Rajasthan Seat: Jodhpur Bench: Jaipur	Indrajit Mahanty
22.	Sikkim High Court	16 May 1975	The 36th Amendment to the Indian Constitution	Jurisdiction: Sikkim Seat: Gangtok	Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari
23.	Telangana High Court	1 January 2019	Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014	Jurisdiction: Telangana Seat: Hyderabad	Hima Kohli
24.	Tripura High Court	26 March 2013	North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Acts (Amendment), 2012	Jurisdiction: Tripura Seat: Agartala	Akil Kureshi
25.	Uttarakhand High Court	9 November 2000	Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000	Jurisdiction: Uttarakhand Seat: Nanital	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan

(source: Indian Polity, M. Laxmikant)

Facts about the Judges of the High Courts

The Judges of a High Court are appointed by the President.
The Chief Justice is appointed by the President after the consultation with the Chief Justice of India and the Governor of the concerned state.
A person to be appointed as the High Court Judge,/should have held a judicial office or should have been a high court advocate for ten years.
There is no minimum age for the appointment of the High Court Judges,
The constitution has not fixed the tenure of a judge of a high court,
A judge can be removed from his/her office by an order of the President.
The Jurisdiction and powers of the High Court are Original Jurisdictions, Writ Jurisdiction, Appellate Jurisdiction, Supervisory Jurisdiction, Control over Subordinate courts, A court of record, Power of Judicial Review.

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High Courts in India

Delhi is the only Union Territory that has a High Court of its own. All other UT’s fall under the jurisdiction of different State High Courts
Though Orissa is renamed as Odisha the name of the High Court is not changed, it is still Orissa High Court.
Guwahati High Court is originally known as Assam High Court and was renamed in 1971.
Karnataka Highcourt was originally known as Mysore High Court.
Punjab and Haryana High Court were originally known as Punjab High Court and renamed in 1966.
Though Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras have renamed after the Independence the High Courts’ names are not changed.
The Andra Pradesh High Court was renamed the Hyderabad High Court by the Andra Pradesh Re-organisation Act, 2014.

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