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{{Short description|Subnational high court in India}}

{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox high court
|court_name = Chhattisgarh High Court
|native_name=छत्तीसगढ़ उच्च न्यायालय
|image = छत्तीसगढ़ उच्च न्यायालय बिलासपुर.JPG
|imagesize =
|caption =
|established = 1 November 2000
|location = [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur]], [[Chhattisgarh]]
|coordinates={{Coord|22.0182|N|82.0969|E|display=inline,title}}
|type = [[President of India|Presidential]] with [[advice and consent|confirmation]] of [[Chief Justice of India]] and [[Governors of states of India|Governor of respective state]].
|authority = [[Constitution of India]]
|appeals = [[Supreme Court of India]]
|terms = mandatory retirement by age of 62
|positions = 22<br> (Permanent-17; Additional-5)
|website = {{URL|http://highcourt.cg.gov.in}}
|chiefjudgetitle = [[Chief Justice]]
|chiefjudgename = [[Arup Kumar Goswami]]
|termstart = 1 June 2021
}}

[[File:Bilaspur High Court New 27 Feb 2010.jpg|thumb|right]]
The '''Chhattisgarh High Court''' is one of the [[High Courts of India|High Court]]s in India located at Village Bodri, [[Bilaspur District, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur]] with jurisdiction over the [[Indian state|state]] of [[Chhattisgarh]]. 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.<ref name="hindu.com">[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105071100/http://www.hindu.com/2000/10/28/stories/01280002.htm ]</ref><ref name=Inaugural>{{cite web|title=Inaugural Speech|url=http://highcourt.cg.gov.in/is.html#speech|publisher=Chhattisgarh High Court|accessdate=13 October 2014}}</ref>

Justice R. S. Garg was the first acting Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court.<ref name="hindu.com"/> The court has a sanctioned judge strength of eighteen.

==Judges of the High Court==
The Maximum strength of the High Court is 22 in which 17 seats for Permanent judges and 5 seats for Additional judges.

For Present Chief justice and other Judges of Chhattisgarh High Court-
{{See also|List of sitting judges of High Courts of India}}

==List of Chief Justices==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!'''Portrait'''
!Chief Justices
!Date of Appointment
!Date of Retirement
!Governor
(Oath administered by)
|-
!1
|
|[[Ramesh Surajmal Garg]]
|1 November 2000
|4 December 2000
| rowspan="3" |[[Dinesh Nandan Sahay|D. N. Sahay]]
|-
!2
|
|[[W.A. Shishak]]
|5 December 2000
|15 January 2002
|-
!3
|
|K.H.N. Kuranga
|6 February 2002
|10 May 2004
|-
!4
|
|Ayyampalayam Somasundaram Venkatachala Moorthy
|28 May 2004
|7 January 2005
| rowspan="3" |[[Krishna Mohan Seth]]
|-
!5
|
|[[A.K. Patnaik]]
|14 March 2005
|1 October 2005
|-
!6
|
|S.R. Nayak
|17 November 2005
|31 December 2006
|-
!7
|
|H.L. Dattu
|12 February 2007
|17 May 2007
| rowspan="2" |[[E. S. L. Narasimhan]]
|-
!8
|
|Rajeev Gupta
|2 February 2008
|9 October 2012
|-
!9
|
|[[Yatindra Singh]]
|22 October 2012
|8 October 2014
|[[Shekhar Dutt]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |9
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Navin Sinha]]
|9 October 2014
|8 April 2015
| rowspan="5" |[[Balram Das Tandon]]
|-
|9 April 2015
|13 May 2016
|-
!10
|
|[[Deepak Gupta (judge)|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
|-
!13
|
|[[Prashant Kumar Mishra]]
|23 March 2019
|Incumbent
| rowspan="2" |[[Anandiben Patel]]
|-
!14
|
|[[P. R. Ramachandra Menon]]
|6 May 2019
|31 May 2021
|-
!15
|
|[[Prashant Kumar Mishra]]
|1 June 2021
|Incumbent
|}

==Judges==
The court has a Sanctioned strength of '''22 (Permanent:17, Additional:5)''' judges.

'''Judges transferred from the Chhattisgarh High Court-'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Sr. No.
!Name of the Judge, Justice
!Recruitment
!Date of Appointment
!Date of Retirement
!Remark
|-
!1
|Pritinker Diwaker
|BAR
|31 March 2009
|21 November 2023
|Judge of [[Allahabad High Court]]
|}
'''Sitting Judges of Chhattisgarh High Court-'''{{see also|List of sitting judges of High Courts of India#Chhattisgarh High Court}}

==Chhattisgarh High Court Bar Association==
'''Chhattisgarh High Court Bar Association''' is the representative body of advocates practicing in Bilaspur High Court elected by way of direct voting from about 2400 members of the Bar Association and its officials have a term of two years.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.ebc-india.com/lawyer/hcourts.htm Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts]
*[http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/roct2003/30102003/r301020036.html Judge strength in High Courts increased]
*[http://highcourt.cg.gov.in/ Official Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130623030419/http://www.cghcba.com/ Official Website]
{{High courts of India}}
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[[Category:Government of Chhattisgarh]]
[[Category:2000 establishments in Chhattisgarh]]
[[Category:Courts and tribunals established in 2000]]

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