Uttarakhand High Court

Uttarakhand High Court उत्तराखण्ड उच्च न्यायालय
High Court Building
Established	9 November 2000
Country	India
Location	Nainital, Uttarakhand
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of Uttarakhand
Authorized by	Constitution of India
Decisions are appealed to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	mandatory retirement by age of 62
Number of positions	9
Website	Uttarakhand High Court
Chief Justice
Currently	K. M. Joseph
Since	31 July 2014

The Uttarakhand High Court (Hindi: उत्तराखण्ड उच्च न्यायालय) is the High Court of the state of Uttarakhand in India. The Uttarakhand State was carved out from erstwhile State of Uttar Pradesh on 9 November 2000 under the Uttar Pradesh Reorgansisation Act, 2000. At the time of the creation of the State, the High Court of Uttarakhand was also established on the same day at Nainital.

The sanctioned judge strength at the time of creation in 2000 was 7; this was increased to 9 in 2003. Justice Ashok A. Desai was the inaugural holder of the office. Former Chief Justice of Uttarakhand S. H. Kapadia later went on to become Chief Justice of India. K. M. Joseph is the current Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. He assumed office on 31 July 2014.^[1]

List of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand

Following is the list of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand since its inception on 9 November 2000:

Colour key

S.No.	Name	Portrait	Term		Tenure
	Justice Ashok A. Desai		9 November 2000	5 December 2000	26 days
1	Justice Ashok A. Desai		6 December 2000	31 March 2003	2 years, 3 months and 25 days (Total 2 years, 4 months and 21 days)
	Justice P. C. Verma		1 April 2003	4 August 2003	4 months and 3 days
2	Justice S. H. Kapadia		5 August 2003	17 December 2003	4 months and 12 days
	Justice P. C. Verma		18 December 2003	24 July 2004	7 months and 6 days
3	Justice V. S. Sirpurkar		25 July 2004	19 March 2005	7 months and 22 days
4	Justice Cyriac Joseph		20 March 2005	7 January 2006	9 months and 18 days
	Justice P. C. Verma		8 January 2006	13 January 2006	5 days (Total 11 months and 14 days)
5	Justice Rajiv Gupta		14 January 2006	1 February 2008	2 years and 18 days
6	Justice V. K. Gupta		2 February 2008	9 September 2009	1 year, 7 months and 7 days
	Justice B. C. Kandpal		10 September 2009	28 November 2009	2 months and 18 days
7	Justice J. S. Khehar		29 November 2009	7 August 2010	8 months and 9 days
8	Justice Barin Ghosh		14 August 2010	30 July 2014	3 years, 11 months and 16 days
9	Justice K. M. Joseph		31 July 2014	Incumbent	1 year, 5 months and 24 days

See also

• High Courts of India

Notes

References

• Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts
• Judge strength in High Courts increased
• High Court of Uttarakhand

External links

• The High Court of Uttarakhand, official website