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Allahabad High Court
High Court building in Allahabad
Interactive map of Allahabad High Court
25°27′11″N81°49′14″E / 25.45306°N 81.82056°E /25.45306; 81.82056
Established	17 March 1866 (inAgra) 1869 (in Allahabad)
Jurisdiction	Uttar Pradesh
Location	Principal Seat:Prayagraj Permanent Bench:Lucknow
Coordinates	25°27′11″N81°49′14″E / 25.45306°N 81.82056°E /25.45306; 81.82056
Composition method	Presidential withconfirmation ofChief Justice of India andGovernor of respective state.
Authorised by	Constitution of India
Judge term length	mandatory retirement by age of 62
Number of positions	160 (permanent 76; additional 84)
Website	allahabadhighcourt.in
Chief Justice
Currently	Arun Bhansali
Since	5 February 2024

Allahabad High Court, officially known asHigh Court of Judicature at Allahabad, is thehigh court based in the city ofPrayagraj, formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, that has jurisdiction over the Indian state ofUttar Pradesh. It was established on 17 March 1866, making it one of the oldest high courts to be established inIndia.

Allahabad became the seat of Government ofNorth-Western Provinces and a High Court was established in 1834 but was shifted toAgra within a year.^[1] In 1875 it shifted back to Allahabad.^[2][3] The former High Court was located at the Accountant General's office at theUniversity of Allahabad complex.^[3]

It was founded as the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces at Agra on 17 March 1866 by theIndian High Courts Act 1861 replacing the oldSadr 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 of the High Court for the North-Western Provinces was moved from Agra toAllahabad in 1875 and the name was correspondingly changed to theHigh 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 atLucknow by the Oudh Civil Courts Act of 1925, enacted by the United Provinces Legislature with the previous sanction of theGovernor General and the passing of this Act.

On 25 February 1948, the Chief Court of Oudh was amalgamated with the High Court of Allahabad.

Until 2000, what is now calledUttarakhand was part of Uttar Pradesh, and was therefore subject to the jurisdiction of Allahabad High Court. When the new state was created, Allahabad High Court ceased to have jurisdiction over the districts in it. TheUttarakhand High Court was established on 9 November 2000 with jurisdiction over the new state.

The seat of the court is atPrayagraj. Allahabad High Court maintains a permanent circuit bench atLucknow, the administrative capital of the state. The maximum number of serving judges is 160, the highest in India.

Residents of Western Uttar Pradesh have also been long demanding a high court bench inMeerut. Almost 54% of all cases reaching the High Court originate from the 22 districts of Western UP, still, western Uttar Pradesh does not have a High Court bench.^[4] Eight other High Courts—such as those at Delhi, Shimla, Chandigarh—are closer to litigants of West Uttar Pradesh than their own High Court in Prayagraj. In fact,Lahore High Court is closer to western Uttar Pradesh than Allahabad High Court.^[5][6]

Journals that report Allahabad High Court Judgements include

1. Allahabad Criminal Cases,
2. Allahabad Law Journal
3. Allahabad Law Reports
4. Allahabad Daily Judgement
5. Allahabad Civil Journal
6. Allahabad Weekly Cases
7. Allahabad Rent Cases
8. Accidents Claims Journal
9. Allahabad Criminal Rulings
10. Criminal Law Journal
11. Motor Accident Claims
12. Revenue Decisions
13. U.P. Local Bodies and Education Cases
14. Lucknow Civil Decisions (LCD)
15. All India Judicial Interpretation on Crimes

The Registry at High Court of Judicature at Allahabad is broadly divided into five Cadres:

• General office Cadre (Registrar Cadre)

An officer enters this cadre in the rank of Review Officer/Asst. Review Officer/Computer Assistant after passing a competitive exam and rises up through successive promotions on S.O./Asst./Deputy/Joint Registrar to reach the post of Registrar.

• Bench Secretary Cadre
• Private Secretary Cadre
• Computer Cadre
• Library Cadre

Some other cadres/posts at High Court of Judicature at Allahabad are:

• Chief Documentation Officer cum Chief Librarian (currently held by Sri. Amitabh Saran)
• Physiotherapist
• Court Manager

Commemorative stamps released byIndia Post:

1966

2016

2016

The court has a Sanctioned strength of 160 (120 permanent, 40 additional) judges. JusticeArun Bhansali is the currentChief Justice of the High Court.

This sections contains list of only those judges elevated as chief justices whose parent high court is Allahabad. This includes those judges who, at the time of appointment as chief justice, may not be serving in Allahabad High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of appointment as chief justice were serving in Allahabad High Court but does not have Allahabad as their Parent High Court.

Name	Image	Appointed as CJ in HC of	Date of appointment		Date of retirement[a]	Tenure		Transferred as CJ to HC of	Ref..
			As Judge	As Chief Justice		As Chief Justice	As Judge[b]
Charles Arthur Turner		Madras	1866	3 March 1879	1885			--	[8]
Henry George Richards		Allahabad	1905	21 April 1911	1919			--
Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier		Patna	1910	1 March 1916	30 October 1917	1 year, 244 days		--
Shah Muhammad Sulaiman		Allahabad	1923	16 March 1932	30 September 1937[†][c]	5 years, 199 days		--
Birjor Dalal		Jammu & Kashmir	1925	16 February 1931	23 November 1936	5 years, 282 days		--
John Douglas Young		Lahore	1929	1934	1943			--
Iqbal Ahmad		Allahabad	1933	21 July 1941	16 September 1946	5 years, 58 days		--
Rachpal Singh		Jammu & Kashmir	1934	13 August 1940	6 March 1942	1 year, 206 days		--
Arthur Trevor Harries		Patna	1934	10 October 1938	12 June 1952	13 years, 247 days		Lahore then toCalcutta
Ganga Nath		Jammu & Kashmir	1937	24 June 1942	23 October 1945	3 years, 122 days		--
Kamalkanta Verma		Allahabad	1937	17 September 1946	24 January 1950	3 years, 130 days		Rajasthan[d]
Bidhu Bhushan Malik			13 March 1944	15 October 1947	11 January 1955	7 years, 89 days	10 years, 305 days	--	[9]
Orby Howell Mootham			22 July 1946	12 January 1955	16 February 1961	6 years, 36 days	14 years, 210 days	--	[8]
Kailas Nath Wanchoo		Rajasthan	17 February 1947	2 January 1951	10 August 1958[†]	7 years, 221 days	11 years, 175 days	--
Manulal Chunilal Desai		Allahabad	13 December 1948	17 February 1961	24 February 1966	5 years, 8 days	17 years, 74 days	--
Vashishtha Bhargava			1 August 1949	25 February 1966	7 August 1966[†]	164 days	17 years, 7 days	--
Mirza Nasirullah Beg			1 June 1951	24 September 1966	3 June 1967	253 days	16 years, 3 days	--
Gopalji Mehrotra		Gauhati	6 May 1954	30 June 1961	6 February 1967	5 years, 222 days	12 years, 277 days	--
Vidyadhar Govind Oak		Allahabad	31 March 1955	4 June 1967	18 May 1971	3 years, 349 days	16 years, 49 days	--
Bishambhar Dayal		Madhya Pradesh	6 May 1957	19 March 1969	13 September 1972	3 years, 179 days	15 years, 131 days	--	[10]
Shashi Kanta Verma		Allahabad	30 June 1958	19 May 1971	5 November 1973	2 years, 171 days	15 years, 129 days	--	[8]
Dhatri Saran Mathur			15 January 1959	6 November 1973	13 November 1974	1 year, 8 days	15 years, 303 days	--
Kunwar Bahadur Asthana			22 August 1961	13 November 1974	9 May 1977	2 years, 178 days	15 years, 261 days	--
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak		Himachal Pradesh	1 October 1962	18 March 1972	19 February 1978[†]	5 years, 339 days	15 years, 142 days	--
Mirza Hameedullah Beg			11 June 1963	25 January 1971	9 December 1971[†]	319 days	8 years, 182 days	--
Satish Chandra		Allahabad	7 October 1963	22 March 1978	1 September 1986	8 years, 164 days	22 years, 330 days	Calcutta
Mahesh Narain Shukla			14 March 1969	12 April 1985	5 October 1985	177 days	16 years, 206 days	--
Hridai Narain Seth			7 July 1969	6 October 1985	14 October 1987	2 years, 9 days	18 years, 100 days	Punjab & Haryana
Tribeni Sahai Misra		Gauhati	3 September 1971	12 August 1983	14 November 1984	1 year, 95 days	13 years, 73 days	--	[11]
Narayan Dutt Ojha		Madhya Pradesh		8 January 1987	18 January 1988[†]	1 year, 11 days	16 years, 139 days	--	[10]
Dwarka Nath Jha		Allahabad	6 August 1973	14 July 1987	15 July 1987	2 days	13 years, 344 days	--	[8]
Amitav Banerji				26 April 1988	6 November 1988	195 days	15 years, 93 days	--
Brahma Nath Katju				7 November 1988	22 May 1989	197 days	15 years, 290 days	--
Krishna Chandra Agarwal		Rajasthan		15 April 1990	15 January 1996	5 years, 276 days	22 years, 163 days	Calcutta
Sudarshan Dayal Aggarwal		Punjab & Haryana	17 November 1977	13 November 1992	14 January 1994	1 year, 63 days	16 years, 59 days	--
Satish Chandra Mathur		Jammu & Kashmir	30 March 1978	10 October 1993	17 March 1994	159 days	15 years, 353 days	--
Viney Krishna Khanna		Gauhati	2 July 1979	24 April 1994	14 February 1997	2 years, 297 days	17 years, 228 days	--
Saiyed Sagir Ahmed		Jammu & Kashmir	2 November 1981	18 March 1994	5 March 1995[†]	353 days	13 years, 124 days	Andhra Pradesh
Vishweshwar Nath Khare		Calcutta	25 June 1983	2 February 1996	20 March 1997[†]	1 year, 47 days	13 years, 269 days	--
Ajay Prakash Misra		Delhi	24 May 1984	26 June 1997	3 December 1997[†]	161 days	13 years, 194 days	--
Om Prakash Verma		Kerala		20 December 1997	19 March 1999	1 year, 90 days	14 years, 300 days	--
Brijesh Kumar		Gauhati		12 February 1999	18 October 2000[†]	1 year, 250 days	16 years, 148 days	--
Ravi Swaroop Dhavan		Patna	9 January 1986	25 January 2000	22 July 2004	4 years, 180 days	18 years, 196 days	--
Daya Saran Sinha		Gujarat	17 March 1986	17 March 2002	17 March 2003	1 year, 1 day	17 years, 1 day	--
Markandey Katju		Madras	30 November 1991	28 November 2004	9 April 2006[†]	1 year, 133 days	14 years, 131 days	Delhi	[12]
Jagadish Bhalla		Himachal Pradesh	5 April 1995	2 February 2008	31 October 2010	2 years, 272 days	15 years, 210 days	Rajasthan
Balbir Singh Chauhan		Orissa		16 July 2008	10 May 2009[†]	299 days	14 years, 36 days	--
Yatindra Singh		Chhattisgarh	5 February 1999	22 October 2012	8 October 2014	1 year, 352 days	15 years, 246 days	--
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal		Madras		24 October 2013	16 February 2014[†]	116 days	15 years, 12 days	--
Sunil Ambwani		Rajasthan	24 April 2001	24 March 2015	21 August 2015	151 days	14 years, 120 days	--	[13]
Ashok Bhushan		Kerala		26 March 2015	12 May 2016[†]	1 year, 48 days	15 years, 19 days	--
Vineet Saran		Orissa	14 February 2002	26 February 2016	6 August 2018[†]	2 years, 162 days	16 years, 174 days	--
Tarun Agarwala		Meghalaya	7 January 2004	12 February 2018	2 March 2018	19 days	14 years, 55 days	--
Krishna Murari		Punjab & Haryana		2 June 2018	22 September 2019[†]	1 year, 113 days	15 years, 259 days	--
Amreshwar Pratap Sahi		Patna	24 September 2004	17 November 2018	31 December 2020	2 years, 45 days	16 years, 99 days	Madras
Vikram Nath		Gujarat		10 September 2019	30 August 2021[†]	1 year, 355 days	16 years, 340 days	--
Pankaj Mithal		Jammu & Kashmir	7 July 2006	4 January 2021	5 February 2023	2 years, 33 days	16 years, 214 days	Rajasthan
Ritu Raj Awasthi		Karnataka	13 April 2009	11 October 2021	2 July 2022	265 days	13 years, 81 days	--
Ramesh Sinha		Chhattisgarh	21 November 2011	29 March 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 323 days	14 years, 86 days	--
Sunita Agarwal		Gujarat		23 July 2023		2 years, 207 days	14 years, 86 days	--
Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya		Bombay		29 July 2023		2 years, 201 days	14 years, 86 days	Delhi
Manoj Kumar Gupta		Uttarakhand	12 April 2013	10 January 2026		36 days	12 years, 309 days	--

This section includes the list of only those judges whose parent high court was Allahabad. This includes those judges who, at the time of elevation toSupreme Court of India, may not be serving in Allahabad High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of elevation were serving in Allahabad High Court but does not have Allahabad as their Parent High Court.

#	Name of the Judge	Image	Date of Appointment		Date of Retirement	Tenure			Immediately preceding office
			In Parent High Court	In Supreme Court		In High Court(s)	In Supreme Court	Total tenure[a]
1	Ghulam Hasan		25 July 1948	8 September 1952[b]	5 November 1954[†]	2 years, 344 days	2 years, 59 days	5 years, 38 days	--
2	Kailas Nath Wanchoo		17 February 1947	11 August 1958	24 February 1968	11 years, 175 days	9 years, 198 days	21 years, 8 days	2nd CJ ofRajasthan HC
3	Raghubar Dayal		22 July 1946	27 July 1960	25 October 1965	14 years, 5 days	5 years, 91 days	19 years, 96 days	Judge of Allahabad HC
4	Vashishtha Bhargava		1 August 1949	8 August 1966	4 February 1971	17 years, 7 days	4 years, 181 days	21 years, 188 days	17th CJ of Allahabad HC
5	Mirza Hameedullah Beg		11 June 1963	10 December 1971	21 February 1978	8 years, 182 days	6 years, 74 days	14 years, 256 days	1st CJ ofHimachal Pradesh HC
6	Surendra Narayan Dwivedi		12 May 1959	14 August 1972	8 December 1974[†]	13 years, 94 days	2 years, 117 days	15 years, 211 days	Judge of Allahabad HC
7	Raghunandan Swarup Pathak		1 October 1962	20 February 1978	18 June 1989[RES]	15 years, 142 days	11 years, 119 days	26 years, 261 days	2nd CJ ofHimachal Pradesh HC
8	Ram Briksha Misra		3 January 1968	30 January 1981	15 June 1986	13 years, 27 days	5 years, 137 days	18 years, 164 days	Judge of Allahabad HC
9	Kamal Narain Singh		25 August 1970	10 March 1986	12 December 1991	15 years, 197 days	5 years, 278 days	21 years, 110 days	Judge of Allahabad HC
10	Narayan Dutta Ojha		3 September 1971	18 January 1988	18 January 1991	16 years, 139 days	3 years, 1 day	19 years, 138 days	11th CJ ofMadhya Pradesh HC
11	Ram Manohar Sahai		27 January 1976	11 January 1990	24 June 1995	13 years, 349 days	5 years, 165 days	19 years, 149 days	Judge of Allahabad HC
12	Saiyed Saghir Ahmad		2 November 1981	6 March 1995	30 June 2000	13 years, 124 days	5 years, 117 days	18 years, 242 days	CJ of undivided Andhra Pradesh HC
13	Vishweshwar Nath Khare		25 June 1983	21 March 1997	1 May 2004	13 years, 269 days	7 years, 42 days	21 years, 38 days	29th CJ ofCalcutta HC
14	Ajay Prakash Misra		24 May 1984	4 December 1997	31 August 2001	13 years, 194 days	3 years, 271 days	17 years, 100 days	18th CJ ofDelhi HC
15	Brijesh Kumar			19 October 2000	9 June 2004	16 years, 148 days	3 years, 235 days	20 years, 17 days	25th CJ ofGauhati HC
16	Govind Prasad Mathur		6 July 1990	20 December 2002	19 January 2008	12 years, 167 days	5 years, 31 days	17 years, 198 days	Acting CJ of Allahabad HC
17	Markandey Katju		30 November 1991	10 April 2006	19 September 2011	14 years, 131 days	5 years, 163 days	19 years, 294 days	23rd CJ ofDelhi HC
18	Balbir Singh Chauhan		5 April 1995	11 May 2009	1 July 2014	14 years, 36 days	5 years, 52 days	19 years, 88 days	22nd CJ ofOrissa HC
19	Rajesh Kumar Agrawal		5 February 1999	17 February 2014	4 May 2018	15 years, 12 days	4 years, 77 days	19 years, 89 days	37th CJ ofMadras HC
20	Ashok Bhushan		24 April 2001	13 May 2016	4 July 2021	15 years, 19 days	5 years, 53 days	20 years, 72 days	31st CJ ofKerala HC
21	Vineet Saran		14 February 2002	7 August 2018	10 May 2022	16 years, 174 days	3 years, 277 days	20 years, 86 days	29th CJ ofOrissa HC
22	Krishna Murari		7 January 2004	23 September 2019	8 July 2023	15 years, 259 days	3 years, 289 days	19 years, 183 days	34th CJ ofPunjab & Haryana HC
23	Vikram Nath		24 September 2004	31 August 2021	Incumbent	16 years, 340 days	4 years, 168 days	21 years, 144 days	25th CJ ofGujarat HC
24	Pankaj Mithal		7 July 2006	6 February 2023	Incumbent	16 years, 214 days	3 years, 9 days	19 years, 223 days	40th CJ ofRajasthan HC
25	Manoj Misra		21 November 2011	6 February 2023	Incumbent	11 years, 76 days	3 years, 9 days	14 years, 86 days	Judge of Allahabad HC

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Uttar Pradesh has at least 9 times more pending cases than any other state.^{[citation needed]}

Allahabad High Court as of 2022, has 9.33 lakh cases pending in the fast-track courts of Uttar Pradesh, followed by over 1.04 lakh cases in Maharashtra, 1.02 lakh cases in Tamil Nadu, 71,261 cases in West Bengal and 12,538 cases in Telangana.

A bench at Meerut is needed^{[according to whom?]} as a lot of corporate and capital investments in Noida, have gone to other states due to more readily accessibility of justice in corporate affairs.^{[citation needed]}

The decision byFoxconn and Winston to choose Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as their manufacturing hub has been attributed by experts^[who?] for this very same reason.^{[citation needed]}

The NCR planning committee recommended setting up a High Court bench in Meerut with utmost priority.^[14]

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