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
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

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