The Jammu and Kashmir High Court is the High Court

High Courts of India

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 of the Indian state

States and territories of India

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 of Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally with the People's Republic of China to the north and east and the...

. It was established on 28 August 1943 by letters patent issued by the Maharaja

Maharaja

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 of Jammu Kashmir. The seat of the court shifts between its summer capital Srinagar

Srinagar

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 and winter capital Jammu

Jammu

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. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 14. The current Chief Justice of the court is Aftab Hussain Saikia. He assumed responsibility on 13 April 2010.

History

The High Court of the Jammu and Kashmir state was established on the basis of the Order No. 1 issued by the Maharaja on 26 March 1928. The Maharaja appointed Lala Kanwar Sain as the first Chief Justice and Rai Bahadur Lala Bodh Raj Sawhney and Khan Sahib Aga Syed Hussain as Puisne Judges. The seats of the High Court were at Jammu and Srinagar. On 10 September 1943, letters patent were conferred on the High Court by the Maharaja.

The Acting Chief Justice

The Current Chief Justice is FM Ibrahim Kalifulla. He is the Acting Chief Justice following the retirement of Chief Justice Saikia. His Lordship is the Former Judge of the Madras High Court.

List of former Chief Justices

#	Chief Justice	Term
1	Kanwar Sain	27 April 1928–16 February 1931
2	Birjor Dalal	16 February 1931–24 November 1936
3	Abdul Qayoom	24 November 1936–20 July 1940
4	Rachpal Singh	13 August 1940–6 March 1942
5	Ganga Nath	24 June 1942–23 October 1945
6	S.K. Ghose	29 March 1946–29 March 1948
7	Janki Nath Wazir	30 March 1948–2 December 1967
8	Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali	3 December 1967–1 April 1975
9	Raja Jaswant Singh	2 April 1975–23 January 1976
10	M.R.A. Ansari	23 January 1976–8 November 1977
11	Mian Jalal-ud-Din	15 February 1978–22 February 1980
12	Mufti Baha-ud-Din	7 March 1983–23 August 1983
13	V.Angarial Khalid	24 August 1983–24 June 1984
14	Adarsh Sein Anand	11 May 1985–23 October 1989
15	S.S. Kang	24 October 1989–14 May 1993
16	S.C. Mathur	10 October 1993–17 March 1994
17	S. Sagir Ahmed	18 March 1994–22 September 1994
18	M. Ramakrishna	10 October 1994–15 June 1997
19	Bhawani Singh	16 June 1997–21 February 2000
20	B.P. Saraf	21 February 2000–22 August 2001
21	H.K. Sema	12 September 2001–8 April 2002
22	B.C. Patel	16 May 2002–4 March 2003
23	S.N. Jha	4 February 2004–11 October 2005
24	B.A. Khan	25 January 2007–31 March 2007
25	Aftab Alam	7 June 2007–10 November 2007
26	K.S. Radhakrishnan	7 January 2008–28 August 2008
27	Manmohan Sarin	4 September 2008–19 October 2008
28	Barin Ghosh	3 January 2009–13 April 2010
29	Dr. Justice Aftab Hussain Saikia	13 April 2010–6 April 2011

External links

• Justice Bilal Nazki
• Jammu and Kashmir High Court official website