The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands..
History :- The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by Letters patent granted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, bearing date 26 June 1862, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was established as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William on 1 July 1862 under the High Courts Act, 1861, which was preceded by the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William.
Despite the name of the city having officially changed from Calcutta to Kolkata in 2001, the Court, as an institution retained the old name. The bill to rename it as Kolkata High Court was approved by the Cabinet on 5 July 2016 along with the renaming of its two other counterparts in Chennai and Mumbai. However, the High Court still retains the old name.
List of Chief Justices
For Chief Justices of the previous Supreme Court of Bengal see Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William.
# | Chief Justice | Term |
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1 | Sir Barnes Peacock | 1862–1870 |
2 | Sir Richard Couch | 1870–1875 |
3 | Sir Richard Garth | 1875–1886 |
4 | Sir William Comer Petheram | 1886–1896 |
5 | Sir Francis William Maclean | 1896–1909 |
6 | Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins | 1909–1915 |
7 | Sir Lancelot Sanderson | 1915–1926 |
8 | Sir George Claus Rankin | 1926–1934 |
9 | Sir Harold Derbyshire | 1934–1946 |
10 | Sir Arthur Trevor Harries | 1946–1952 |
After Indian Independence | ||
1 | Phani Bhusan Chakravartti | 1952–1958 |
2 | Kulada Charan Das Gupta | 1958–1959 |
3 | Surajit Chandra Lahiri | 1959–1961 |
4 | Himansu Kumar Bose | 1961–1966 |
5 | Deep Narayan Sinha | 1966–1970 |
6 | Prasanta Bihari Mukharji | 1970–1972 |
7 | Sankar Prasad Mitra | 1972–1979 |
8 | Amarendra Nath Sen | 1979–1981 |
9 | Sambhu Chandra Ghose | 1981–1983 |
10 | Samarendra Chandra Deb | January 1983 – February 1983 |
11 | Satish Chandra | 1983–1986 |
12 | Anil Kumar Sen | September 1986 – October 1986 |
13 | Chittatosh Mookerjee | 1 November 1986 – 1 November 1987 |
14 | Debi Singh Tewatia | 1 November 1987 – 1988 |
15 | Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai | 1988–1991 |
16 | Nagendra Prasad Singh | 4 February 1992 – 14 June 1992 |
17 | Anandamoy Bhattacharjee | 1992–1994 |
18 | Krishna Chandra Agarwal | 1994–1996 |
19 | V. N. Khare | 2 February 1996 – 20 March 1997 |
20 | Prabha Shankar Mishra | 1997–1998 |
21 | Ashok Kumar Mathur | 22 December 1999 – 6 June 2004 |
22 | V. S. Sirpurkar | 20 March 2005 – 11 January 2007 |
23 | Surinder Singh Nijjar | 8 March 2007 – 16 November 2009 |
24 | Mohit Shantilal Shah | 24 December 2009 – 25 June 2010 |
25 | Jai Narayan Patel | 2010 – 4 October 2012 |
– | Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta (acting) | 5 October 2012 – 30 October 2012 |
26 | Arun Kumar Mishra | 14 December 2012 – 6 July 2014 |
27 | Manjula Chellur | 5 August 2014 – 21 August 2016 |
– | Girish Chandra Gupta (acting) | 22 August 2016 – 20 September 2016 |
28 | Girish Chandra Gupta | 21 September 2016 – 30 November 2016 |
– | Nishita Nirmal Mhatre (acting) | 1 December 2016 – 20 September 2017 |
– | Rakesh Tiwari (acting) | 20 September 2017 – 24 October 2017 |
– | Jyotirmay Bhattacharya (acting) | 25 October 2017 – 30 April 2018 |
29 | Jyotirmay Bhattacharya | 1 May 2018 – 24 September 2018 |
– | Debasish Kar Gupta (acting) | 25 September 2018 – 29 October 2018 |
30 | Debasish Kar Gupta | 30 October 2018 – 31 December 2018 |
– | Biswanath Somadder (acting) | 1 January 2019 — 3 April 2019 |
31 | Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan | 4 April 2019 — Present |