The Chhattisgarh High Court is one of the High Courts in India located at village Bodri, Bilaspur with jurisdiction over the state of Chhattisgarh.
History :- It was established on 1 November 2000 with the creation of new state of Chhattisgarh upon the reorganisation of the state of Madhya Pradesh. The High Court of Bilaspur is the 19th High Court of India. Justice R. S. Garg was the first acting Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of eighteen.
List of Chief Justices
Chief Justices | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | |
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– | R. S. Garg (Acting) | 1 November 2000 | 4 December 2000 |
1 | W.A. Shishak | 5 December 2000 | 15 January 2002 |
2 | K.H.N. Kuranga | 6 February 2002 | 10 May 2004 |
3 | Ayyampalayam Somasundaram Venkatachala Moorthy | 28 May 2004 | 7 January 2005 |
4 | A.K. Patnaik | 14 March 2005 | 1 October 2005 |
5 | S.R. Nayak | 17 November 2005 | 31 December 2006 |
6 | H.L. Dattu | 12 February 2007 | 17 May 2007 |
7 | Rajeev Gupta | 2 February 2008 | 9 October 2012 |
8 | Yatindra Singh | 22 October 2012 | 8 October 2014 |
– | Navin Sinha (Acting) | 9 October 2014 | 8 April 2015 |
9 | Navin Sinha | 9 April 2015 | 11 May 2016 |
10 | Deepak Gupta | 16 May 2016 | 16 February 2017 |
11 | Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan | 18 March 2017 | 6 July 2018 |
12 | Ajay Kumar Tripathi | 7 July 2018 | 22 March 2019 |
– | Prashant Kumar Mishra (Acting) | 23 March 2019 | 5 May 2019 |
13 | P. R. Ramachandra Menon | 6 May 2019 | Incumbent |