Meghalaya High Court

The Meghalaya High Court is the High Court of the state of Meghalaya.^[1] 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. This court has four permanent judges, including the Hon'ble Chief Justice, and three Hon'ble Judges.

Meghalaya High Court
Established	23 March 2013; 11 years ago (2013-03-23)
Jurisdiction	Meghalaya
Location	Shillong, Meghalaya
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorised by	Constitution of India
Appeals to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	Till 62 years of age
Number of positions	4
Website	meghalayahighcourt.nic.in
Chief Justice
Currently	Indra Prasanna Mukerji
Since	3 October 2024

The current Chief Justice is Justice Indra Prasanna Mukerji, who took charge on 3 October 2024.^[2]

List of chief justices

#	Chief justice	Tenure
		Start	End
1	Leonard Stone (judge)	1947	1947
2	Ronald Francis Lodge	1947	1948
3	T V Thadani	1948	1949
4	Sarjoo Prasad	1949	1950
5	Chandreswar Prasad Sinha	1950	1952
6	Holiram Deka	1952	1952
7	G. Mehrotra	1952	1953
(6)	Holiram Deka	1954	1957
(7)	G. Mehrotra	1957	1958
(6)	Holiram Deka	1958	1960
(7)	G. Mehrotra	1960	1965
8	C. S. Row Nayudu	1965	1970
(7)	G. Mehrotra	1970	1973
9	S. K. Dutta	1973	1973
(8)	C. S. Row Nayudu	1973	1974
(9)	S. K. Dutta	1974	1975
10	M. C. Pathak	1975	1976
11	M. S. Swamy	1976	1977
(10)	M. C. Pathak	1977	1978
(11)	M. S. Swamy	1978	1978
12	C. M. Lodha	6 July 1978	10 March 1979
13	Debi Singh Tewatia	10 March 1979	30 September 1985
14	P. C. Reddy	30 September 1985	2 November 1986
15	K. M. Lahiri	1986	1986
16	T. S. Misra	1986	1988
17	G. M. Lodha	1 March 1988	15 March 1988
18	A. S. Raghuvir	6 May 1988	21 March 1991
19	R. K. Manisana Singh	27 January 1994	1 February 1994
20	V. K. Khanna	1 February 1994	14 February 1997
21	M. Ramakrishna	18 June 1997	12 February 1999
22	Brijesh Kumar	12 February 1999	19 October 2000
23	N. C. Jain	20 October 2000	5 April 2001
24	R. S. Mongia	5 April 2001	10 June 2002
25	P. P. Naolekar	10 June 2002	27 August 2004
26	Binod Kumar Roy	27 August 2004	5 December 2005
27	B. S. Reddy	5 December 2005	12 January 2007
28	Jasti Chelameswar	12 January 2007	17 March 2010
29	Ramesh Surajmal Garg	17 April 2010	18 June 2010
30	Madan Lokur	18 June 2010	20 December 2011
31	Adarsh Kumar Goel	20 December 2011	23 March 2013
32	Deepak Gupta	23 March 2013	23 March 2013

There have been eleven chief justices of the Meghalaya High Court, out of whom two were elevated as judges of the Supreme Court of India, Prafulla Chandra Pant and Dinesh Maheshwari

#	Chief Justice	Tenure
		Start	End
33	T. Meena Kumari	23 March 2013	3 August 2013
34	Prafulla Chandra Pant	20 September 2013	12 August 2014
35	Uma Nath Singh	19 March 2015	14 January 2016
36	Dinesh Maheshwari	24 February 2016	12 February 2018
37	Tarun Agarwala	12 February 2018	2 March 2018
38	Mohammad Yaqoob Mir	21 May 2018	27 May 2019
39	Ajay Kumar Mittal	28 May 2019	2 November 2019
40	Mohammad Rafiq	13 November 2019	26 April 2020
41	Biswanath Somadder	27 April 2020	11 October 2021
42	Ranjit Vasantrao More	12 October 2021	3 November 2021
43	Sanjib Banerjee	24 November 2021	1 November 2023
44	S. Vaidyanathan	11 February 2024	16 August 2024
45	Indra Prasanna Mukerji	21 September 2024

References

1. "New Chief Justices for Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura high courts". Times of India. 24 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
2. "Order of appointment of Shri Justice Indra Prasanna Mukerji". Retrieved 30 September 2024.

External links

• Meghalaya High Court