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{{short description|High Court for Indian State of Meghalaya}}<br />
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|court_name = Meghalaya High Court<br>मेघालय उच्च न्यायालय<br />
|image = <br />
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|caption = <br />
|established = {{start date and age|df=yes|2013|03|23}}<br />
|jurisdiction = [[Meghalaya]] <br />
|country = {{flagu|India}} <br />
|location = [[Shillong]], [[Meghalaya]]<br />
|coordinates=<br />
|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]]. <br />
|authority = [[Constitution of India]]<br />
|appeals = [[Supreme Court of India]]<br />
|terms = Till 62 years of age<br />
|positions = 4<br />
|website = [http://meghalayahighcourt.nic.in meghalayahighcourt.nic.in]<br />
|chiefjudgetitle = [[Chief Justice]]<br />
|chiefjudgename =[[Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew]] '''(ACJ)'''<br />
|termstart = 4 November 2021<br />
|termend = <br />
|first holder=[[T. Kumari Meena]]}}<br />
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The '''Meghalaya High Court''' is the [[High Courts of India|High Court]] of the [[Indian state|state]] of [[Meghalaya]].<ref>{{cite news|title=New Chief Justices for Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura high courts|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/New-Chief-Justices-for-Manipur-Meghalaya-Tripura-high-courts/articleshow/19163853.cms|accessdate=24 March 2013|newspaper=Times of India|date=24 March 2013}}</ref> It was established in March 2013, after making suitable amendments in the [[Constitution of India]] and North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act of 1971. Earlier, a bench of the [[Gauhati High Court]] had jurisdiction over the state of Meghalaya. The seat of the High Court is at [[Shillong]], the capital of Meghalaya. The strength of judges as for this [[High Court]] is 4 permanent judges including the Hon'ble Chief Justice and 3 Hon'ble Judges.<br />
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The current Acting Chief Justice is Hon'ble Justice [[Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew]] who took charge on 4 November 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chief Justice and Judges profile|url=http://meghalayahighcourt.nic.in/judges.html|publisher=High Court of Meghalaya|accessdate=27 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609040156/http://meghalayahighcourt.nic.in/Judges.html|archive-date=9 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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== List of Chief Justices ==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! rowspan="2" |#<br />
! rowspan="2" |Chief Justice<br />
! colspan="2" |Tenure<br />
|-<br />
!Start<br />
!End<br />
|-<br />
!1<br />
|[[T. Meena Kumari]]<br />
|23 March 2013<br />
|3 August 2013<br />
|-<br />
!2<br />
|[[Prafulla Chandra Pant]]<br />
|20 September 2013<br />
|12 August 2014<br />
|-<br />
!3<br />
|[[Uma Nath Singh]]<br />
|19 March 2015<br />
|14 January 2016<br />
|-<br />
!4<br />
|[[Dinesh Maheshwari]]<br />
|24 February 2016<br />
|12 February 2018<br />
|-<br />
!5<br />
|[[Tarun Agarwala]]<br />
|12 February 2018<br />
|2 March 2018<br />
|-<br />
!6<br />
|[[Mohammad Yaqoob Mir]]<br />
|21 May 2018<br />
|27 May 2019<br />
|-<br />
!7<br />
|[[Ajay Kumar Mittal]]<br />
|28 May 2019<br />
|2 November 2019<br />
|-<br />
!8<br />
|[[Mohammad Rafiq (judge)|Mohammad Rafiq]]<br />
|13 November 2019<br />
|26 April 2020<br />
|-<br />
!9<br />
|[[Biswanath Somadder]]<br />
|27 April 2020<br />
|11 October 2021<br />
|-<br />
!10<br />
|[[Ranjit Vasantrao More]]<br />
|12 October 2021<br />
|3 November 2021<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://meghalayahighcourt.nic.in/ Meghalaya High Court]<br />
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{{High courts of India}}<br />
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[[Category:Government of Meghalaya]]<br />
[[Category:2013 establishments in Meghalaya]]<br />
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