The judicial system of India comprises of the Supreme Court of India toping the hierarchy, which is followed by the twenty one high Courts of the states of India. High Courts of India are the chief civil courts responsible for the jurisdiction of the respective states.

India has 21 high courts among which Delhi High Court is one. The Delhi High Court came into emergence on 31st of October 1966, with four judges namely, K.S. Hedge, the then Chief Justice, Justice H.R. Khanna, Justice I.D Dua and Justice S.K. Kapur.

History
The High Court of Lahore was established on 21st March 1919, at Lahore. It had jurisdiction over Delhi and Punjab, which lasted till the partition of India in 1947. On 15th of August 1947, a new High Court for East Punjab was established which started working from Shimla. Later on the High Court of Punjab was moved to Chandigarh in 1954-55.

Soon the need to establish a high court at Delhi was felt due to Delhi's huge population and other factors. Thus the Parliament decided to establish a new high court at Delhi following which Delhi High Court Act, 1966 was enacted on 5th September, 1966. In the year 1966, the High Court of Punjab which was shifted to Chandigarh, was set up as the Delhi High Court. Originally, till 1971, the Delhi High Court exercised jurisdiction on Himachal Pradesh also besides Delhi.

Chief Justice and the Judges of Delhi High Court
Presently the High court of Delhi has twenty nine permanent judges and nineteen additional judges. Madan B. Lokur is the Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. Some of the other notable sitting judges of the Delhi High Court are:

Vikramajit Sen
A.K.Sikri
Sanjay Kishan Kaul
Badar Durrez Ahmed
Anil Kumar
Gita Mittal
S.Ravindra Bhatt
Rekha Sharma
Sanjiv Khanna
Pradeep Nandrajog
S.N. Dhingra
S.L.Bhayana
Reva Khetrapal
S.N. Aggarwal
P.K. Bhasin
Kailash Gambhir
G.S.Sistani
Dr. S.Muralidhar
Hima Kohli
Aruna Suresh

V.B.Gupta
S. K. Misra
Veena Birbal
Siddharth Mridul
Manmohan
Vijay Kumar Shali
Manmohan Singh
Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
J.R.Midha
Rajiv Shakdher
Sunil Gaur
Mool Chand Garg
Suresh Kait
Valmiki J Mehta
Ajit Bharihoke
V.K. Jain
Indermeet Kaur
A.K. Pathak
Mukta Gupta

Some of the renowned former judges of the Delhi High Court are S.K.Kapoor, Narain Andley, Jagjit singh, MKM Ismail, Prakash Narain, Prithvi Raj, BC Misra, F.S.Gill, M.S.Joshi, S.N.Kumar, to name some of them.

Delhi High Court Address
The mailing address of Delhi High Court is:-

Registrar General, Delhi High Court,
Sher Shah Road, New Delhi- 110003
Contact No: 011- 43010101

You can also write at: delhihighcourt@nic.in

Last Updated on : 21 April 2010