Allahabad High Court

Allahabad High Court
Photo of Allahabad High Court
Established	1950
Country	India
Location	Allahabad
Coordinates	25°27′11″N 81°49′14″E
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorized by	Constitution of India
Decisions are appealed to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	Till 62 years of age
Number of positions	160
Website	http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/
Chief Justice
Currently	Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shiva Kirti Singh
Since	4th Feb 2013
Lead position ends	12th Nov 2013

The Allahabad High Court (Hindi: इलाहाबाद उच्च न्यायालय) or the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad is a high court having jurisdiction over the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh since 1950. It was one of the first high courts to be established in India.

History

It was originally founded as the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces at Agra on 17 March 1866 by the Indian High Courts Act of 1861 replacing the old Sadr Diwani Adalat. Sir Walter Morgan, Barrister-at-Law and Mr. Simpson were appointed the first Chief Justice and the first Registrar respectively of the High Court of North-Western Provinces.

The location High Court for the North-Western Provinces was shifted from Agra to Allahabad in 1869 and the name was correspondingly changed to the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad from 11 March 1919.

On 2 November 1925, the Oudh Judicial Commissioner's Court was replaced by the Oudh Chief Court at Lucknow by the Oudh Civil Courts Act of 1925, enacted by the United Provinces Legislature with the previous sanction of the Governor General the passing of this Act.

On February 25, 1948, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed a resolution requesting the Governor to submit to the Governor General the request of the Assembly to the effect that the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad and the Oudh Chief Court be amalgamated. Consequently, the Chief Court of Oudh was amalgamated with the High Court of Allahabad.

When the state of Uttaranchal, now known as Uttarakhand, was carved out of Uttar Pradesh in 2000, this high court ceased to have jurisdiction over the districts falling in Uttaranchal. Allahabad High court was built by Khan saheb Nizamuddin of Loha Mundi, Agra, India. He also donated the water fountain to the High court.

The seat and benches

The seat of the court is at Allahabad. It has a permanent bench at Lucknow. The bench consists three highly qualified ex-officio jurists, the administrative capital of the state.

Its maximum number of sanctioned judges is 160, the highest in India.

Chief Justice

The Chief Justice is Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shiva Kirti Singh. He was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on 4 February 2013. He also served as the Acting Chief Justice of Patna High Court thrice between May 2009 and May 2010. On October 17, 2012, he had taken oath as senior judge of the Allahabad High Court and after the retirement of Justice Amitava Lala, he became acting Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on November 20, 2012.

Former Chief Justices

#	Chief Justice	Term
1	Walter Morgan	1866–1871
2	Robert Stuart	1871–1884
3	William Comer	1884–1886
4	John Edge	1886–1898
5	Louis Addin Kershaw	1898
6	Arthur Strachey	1898–1901
7	John Stanley	1901–1911
8	Henry Richards	1911–1919
9	Edward Grimwood	1919–1932
10	Shah Muhammad Sulaiman	1932–1937
11	John Gibb Thom	1937–1941
12	Iqbal Ahmad	1941–1946
13	Kamala Kanta Verma	1946–1947
14	Bidhu Bhushan Malik	1947–1955
15	O.H. Mootham	1955–1961
16	Manulal Chunilal Desai	1961–1966
17	Vashishtha Bhargava	25 February 1966–7 August 1966
18	Nasirullah Beg	1966–1967
19	Vidyadhar Govind	1967–1971
20	Shashi Kanta Verma	1971–1973
21	Dhatri Saran Mathur	1973–1974
22	Kunwar Bahadur Asthana	1974–1977
23	D.M. Chandrashekhar	1977–1978
24	Satish Chandra	1978–1983
25	Mahesh Narain Shukla	1983–1985
26	Hriday Nath Seth	1986
27	Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty	1986–1987
28	Dwarka Nath Jha	1987
29	Amitav Banerji	1987–1988
30	Brahma Nath Katju	1988–1989
31	B. P. Jeevan Reddy	1990–1991
32	M. K. Mukherjee	1991–1993
33	S. S. Sodhi	1994–1995
34	A. Lakshman Rao	1995–1996
35	D. P. Mohapatra	1996–1998
36	N. K. Mitra	1999–2000
37	Shyamal Kumar Sen	8 May 2000–24 November 2002
38	Tarun Chatterjee	31 January 2003–26 August 2004
39	Ajoy Nath Ray	11 January 2005–26 January 2007
40	Hemant Laxman Gokhale	7 March 2007–8 March 2009
41	Chandramauli Kumar Prasad	20 March 2009–7 February 2010
42	Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ferdino Inacio Rebello	26 June 2010-30 July 2011
43	Syed Rafat Alam	4 August 2011 - 8 August 2012

References

• Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts
• Judge strength in High Courts increased

External links

• Official website
• eLegalix - Allahabad High Court Judgment Information System
• http://india.gov.in/outerwin.php?id=http://goidirectory.nic.in/
• http://goidirectory.nic.in/judi.htm#hc