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	==History==		==History==

	~~[[File:Calcutta High Court 1860.jpg\|thumb\|Calcutta High Court in the 1860s]]~~

	The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by [[Letters patent]] granted by [[Queen Victoria]], bearing date 26 June 1862, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was established as the '''High Court of Judicature at Fort William''' on 1 July 1862 under the [[indian High Courts Act 1861\|High Courts Act, 1861]], which was preceded by the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William]].		The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by [[Letters patent]] granted by [[Queen Victoria]], bearing date 26 June 1862, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was established as the '''High Court of Judicature at Fort William''' on 1 July 1862 under the [[indian High Courts Act 1861\|High Courts Act, 1861]], which was preceded by the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William]].

	~~[[File:Calcutta High Court in the 1890s.JPG\|thumb\|Calcutta High Court in the 1890s]]~~

	Despite the name of the city having officially changed from ''Calcutta'' to ''Kolkata'' in 2001, the Court, as an institution retained the old name. The bill to rename it as ''Kolkata High Court'' was approved by the Union Cabinet on 5 July 2016 along with the renaming of its two other counterparts in [[Chennai]] and [[Mumbai]].<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cabinet-renames-bombay-madras-calcutta-high-courts-kolkata-mumbai-chennai/ Change of name of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta HC ]</ref> The Bill called High Courts (Alternation of Names) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 19 July 2016<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece\|title=Govt. moves Bill to change names of High Courts\|last=PTI\|website=thehindu.com\|access-date=9 May 2017\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105171321/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece\|archive-date=5 November 2016\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and is yet to be passed by both Houses of Parliament. Hence, the High Court still retains the old name.		Despite the name of the city having officially changed from ''Calcutta'' to ''Kolkata'' in 2001, the Court, as an institution retained the old name. The bill to rename it as ''Kolkata High Court'' was approved by the Union Cabinet on 5 July 2016 along with the renaming of its two other counterparts in [[Chennai]] and [[Mumbai]].<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cabinet-renames-bombay-madras-calcutta-high-courts-kolkata-mumbai-chennai/ Change of name of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta HC ]</ref> The Bill called High Courts (Alternation of Names) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 19 July 2016<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece\|title=Govt. moves Bill to change names of High Courts\|last=PTI\|website=thehindu.com\|access-date=9 May 2017\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105171321/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece\|archive-date=5 November 2016\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and is yet to be passed by both Houses of Parliament. Hence, the High Court still retains the old name.
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	==Gallery==		==Gallery==
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			File:Calcutta High Court in the 1890s.JPG\|Calcutta High Court in the 1890s
			File:Calcutta High Court 1860.jpg\|Calcutta High Court in the 1860s
	File:Calcutta High Court Centenary Building - Kolkata 2011-12-18 0343.JPG\|Calcutta High Court - Centenary Building		File:Calcutta High Court Centenary Building - Kolkata 2011-12-18 0343.JPG\|Calcutta High Court - Centenary Building
	File:Calcutta High Court - New Multi-storey Building - Kolkata 2011-09-03 00472.jpg\|Calcutta High Court - New Multi-storey Building		File:Calcutta High Court - New Multi-storey Building - Kolkata 2011-09-03 00472.jpg\|Calcutta High Court - New Multi-storey Building

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	The '''Calcutta High Court''' is the oldest [[High Courts ~~of India\|High Court]]~~ in [[India]]. It is located in [[B.B.D. Bagh]], [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]. It has jurisdiction over the ~~[[Indian~~ state~~\|state]]~~ of [[West Bengal]] and the [[Union Territory]] of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]. The High Court building's design is based on the [[Cloth Hall, Ypres]], in Belgium.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# \|title=Court's official website \|access-date=7 April 2007 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# \|archive-date=6 March 2007 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>		The '''Calcutta High Court''' is the oldest [High Courts in [[India]]. It is located in B.B.D. Bagh, [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]. It has jurisdiction over the state of [[West Bengal]] and the [[Union Territory]] of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]. The High Court building's design is based on the Cloth Hall, Ypres, in Belgium.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# \|title=Court's official website \|access-date=7 April 2007 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# \|archive-date=6 March 2007 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>

	The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 72. The structure was designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville.		The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 72. The structure was designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville.

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List of Chief Justices

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{{Short description|High Court in West Bengal, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
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|location = Principal Seat: [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]] 
Circuit Benches: [[Jalpaiguri]] & [[Port Blair]] ([[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|A & N Islands]])
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|authority = [[Constitution of India]]
|terms = Till 62 years of age
|positions = 72 {54 Permanent ; 18 Addl.}
|website = [http://calcuttahighcourt.gov.in calcuttahighcourt.gov.in]
|chiefjudgetitle = [[Chief Justice]]
|chiefjudgename = [[Rajesh Bindal]]<ref>http://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/CJ-and-Judges</ref>(acting)
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The '''Calcutta High Court''' is the oldest [[High Courts of India|High Court]] in [[India]]. It is located in [[B.B.D. Bagh]], [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]. It has jurisdiction over the [[Indian state|state]] of [[West Bengal]] and the [[Union Territory]] of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]. The High Court building's design is based on the [[Cloth Hall, Ypres]], in Belgium.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# |title=Court's official website |access-date=7 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# |archive-date=6 March 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 72. The structure was designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville.

==History==

[[File:Calcutta High Court 1860.jpg|thumb|Calcutta High Court in the 1860s]]

The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by [[Letters patent]] granted by [[Queen Victoria]], bearing date 26 June 1862, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was established as the '''High Court of Judicature at Fort William''' on 1 July 1862 under the [[indian High Courts Act 1861|High Courts Act, 1861]], which was preceded by the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William]].

[[File:Calcutta High Court in the 1890s.JPG|thumb|Calcutta High Court in the 1890s]]

Despite the name of the city having officially changed from ''Calcutta'' to ''Kolkata'' in 2001, the Court, as an institution retained the old name. The bill to rename it as ''Kolkata High Court'' was approved by the Union Cabinet on 5 July 2016 along with the renaming of its two other counterparts in [[Chennai]] and [[Mumbai]].<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cabinet-renames-bombay-madras-calcutta-high-courts-kolkata-mumbai-chennai/ Change of name of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta HC ]</ref> The Bill called High Courts (Alternation of Names) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 19 July 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece|title=Govt. moves Bill to change names of High Courts|last=PTI|website=thehindu.com|access-date=9 May 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105171321/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-moves-bill-to-change-names-of-high-courts/article8872001.ece|archive-date=5 November 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and is yet to be passed by both Houses of Parliament. Hence, the High Court still retains the old name.

==Principal seat and benches==
The seat of the Calcutta High Court is at [[Kolkata]], [[List of Indian state and union territory capitals|capital]] of [[West Bengal]]. As per the Calcutta High Court (Extension of Jurisdiction) Act, 1953, the Calcutta High Court's jurisdiction was extended to cover Chandernagore (now called [[Chandannagar]]) and the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] as of 2 May 1950. The Calcutta High Court extended its Circuit Bench in [[Port Blair]], the capital of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] and in [[Jalpaiguri]], the [[Jalpaiguri division|divisional headquarters]] of the [[North Bengal]] region. On 7 February 2019, President [[Ram Nath Kovind]] finalised the opening of the other circuit bench in [[Jalpaiguri|Jalpaiguri, West Bengal]] with the jurisdiction area<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://doj.gov.in/sites/default/files/Orders%20Notification%20of%20establishment%20of%20a%20bench%20of%20Calcutta%20High%20Court%20at%20Jalpaiguri.pdf|title=Orders/notification of establishment of a bench of Calcutta High Court at Jalpaiguri (English/ Hindi) (07.02.2019)|archive-date=12 February 2019|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref> within 5 districts- [[Darjeeling district|Darjeeling]], [[Kalimpong district|Kalimpong]], [[Jalpaiguri district|Jalpaiguri]], [[Alipurduar district|Alipurduar]] and [[Cooch Behar district|Cooch Behar]].

==Chief Justice==
The current Acting Chief Justice of the court is Justice [[Rajesh Bindal]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://barandbench.com/chief-justices-five-high-courts-2/|title=Chief Justices appointed to Five High Courts [Read Notifications] - Bar & Bench|date=2018-10-24|work=Bar & Bench|access-date=2018-10-25|language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Barnes Peacock|Sir Barnes Peacock]] was the first Chief Justice of the High Court. He assumed the charge when the court was founded on 1 July 1862. Justice [[Romesh Chandra Mitra]] was the first Indian officiating Chief Justice and Justice Phani Bhushan Chakravartti was the first Indian permanent Chief Justice of the court. The longest-serving Chief Justice was Justice Sankar Prasad Mitra.

On 20 September 1871, the acting Chief Justice, [[Sir John Paxton Norman]], was murdered on the steps of the courthouse by a Wahabi Muslim named Abdullah.<ref>{{cite book|title= Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830–1910|first = Robert|last = Ivermee}}</ref><ref name="Halen">{{cite web|url=http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HelenJames_LordMayoAssassination.pdf|title=The Assassination of Lord Mayo : The "First" Jihad?|last=James|first=Halen|publisher=IJAPS,Vol 5, No.2 (July 2009)|access-date=18 November 2012}}</ref>

==List of Chief Justices==
''For Chief Justices of the previous Supreme Court of Bengal see [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William]].''
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="70%"
!#
!Chief Justice
!Term
|-
!1
| Sir [[Barnes Peacock]]
|1862–1870
|-
!2
| Sir [[Richard Couch]]
|1870–1875
|-
!3
| Sir [[Richard Garth]]
|1875–1886
|-
!4
| Sir [[William Comer Petheram]]
|1886–1896
|-
!5
| Sir [[Francis William Maclean]]
|1896–1909
|-
!6
|Sir [[Lawrence Hugh Jenkins]]
| 1909–1915
|-
!7
| Sir [[Lancelot Sanderson]]
| 1915–1926
|-
!8
| Sir [[George Claus Rankin]]
|1926–1934
|-
!9
| Sir [[Harold Derbyshire]]
|1934–1946
|-
!10
| Sir [[Arthur Trevor Harries]]
|1946–1952
|-
! colspan="3" |After Indian Independence
|-
!1
| Shri [[Phani Bhusan Chakravartti]]
|1952–1958
|-
!2
| Shri [[Kulada Charan Das Gupta]]
|1958–1959
|-
!3
| Shri [[Surajit Chandra Lahiri]]
|1959–1961
|-
!4
| Shri [[Himansu Kumar Bose]]
|1961–1966
|-
!5
|[[Deep Narayan Sinha]]
|1966–1970
|-
!6
| Shri [[Prasanta Bihari Mukharji]]
|1970–1972
|-
!7
| Shri [[Sankar Prasad Mitra]]
|1972–1979
|-
!8
| Shri [[Amarendra Nath Sen]]
|1979–1981
|-
!9
| Shri [[Sambhu Chandra Ghose]]
|1981–1983
|-
!10
| Shri [[Samarendra Chandra Deb]]
|January 1983 – February 1983
|-
!11
| Shri Satish Chandra
|1983–1986
|-
!12
| Shri [[Anil Kumar Sen]]
|September 1986 – October 1986
|-
!13
| Shri [[Chittatosh Mookerjee]]
|1 November 1986 – 1 November 1987
|-
!14
| Shri [[Debi Singh Tewatia]]
|1 November 1987 – 1988
|-
!15
| Shri [[Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai]]
|1988–1991
|-
!16
| Shri Nagendra Prasad Singh
|4 February 1992 – 14 June 1992
|-
!17
| Shri [[Anandamoy Bhattacharjee]]
|1992–1994
|-
!18
| Shri [[Krishna Chandra Agarwal]]
|1994–1996
|-
!19
|[[V. N. Khare]]
|2 February 1996 – 20 March 1997
|-
!20
|Shri [[Prabha Shankar Mishra]]
|1997–1998
|-
!21
|Shri [[Ashok Kumar Mathur]]
|22 December 1999 – 6 June 2004
|-
!22
|Shri [[V. S. Sirpurkar]]
|20 March 2005 – 11 January 2007
|-
!23
|Shri [[Surinder Singh Nijjar]]
|8 March 2007 – 16 November 2009
|-
!24
|Shri [[Mohit Shantilal Shah]]
|24 December 2009 – 25 June 2010
|-
!25
|Shri [[Jai Narayan Patel]]
|2010 – 4 October 2012
|-
!-
|Shri [[Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta]] (acting)
|5 October 2012 – 30 October 2012
|-
!26
|Shri [[Arun Kumar Mishra]]
|14 December 2012 – 6 July 2014
|-
!27
|Shri [[Manjula Chellur]]
|5 August 2014 – 21 August 2016
|-
!-
|Shri [[Girish Chandra Gupta]] (acting)
|22 August 2016 – 20 September 2016
|-
!28
|Shri [[Girish Chandra Gupta]]
|21 September 2016 – 30 November 2016
|-
!-
|Shri [[Nishita Nirmal Mhatre]] (acting)
|1 December 2016 – 20 September 2017
|-
!-
|Shri [[Rakesh Tiwari]] (acting)
|20 September 2017 – 24 October 2017
|-
!-
|Shri [[Jyotirmay Bhattacharya]] (acting)
|25 October 2017 – 30 April 2018
|-
!29
|[[Jyotirmay Bhattacharya]]
|1 May 2018 – 24 September 2018
|-
!-
|Shri [[Debasish Kar Gupta]] (acting)
|25 September 2018 – 29 October 2018
|-
!30
|Shri [[Debasish Kar Gupta]]
|30 October 2018 – 31 December 2018
|-
!-
|Shri [[Biswanath Somadder]] (acting)
|1 January 2019 — 3 April 2019
|-
!31
|Shri [[Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan]]
|4 April 2019 — 28 April 2021
|-
!-
|Shri [[Rajesh Bindal]] (acting)
|29 April 2021 — Incumbent
|}

== Judges ==
The court has a Sanctioned strength of '''72 (Permanent:54, Additional:18)''' judges.

'''Judges Elevated to the Supreme Court of India-'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Sr. No
!Name of the Judge, Justice
!Date of Elevation
!Date of Retirement
!Parent High Court
|-
!1
|[[Indira Banerjee]]
|7 August 2018
|23 September 2022
|Calcutta
|-
!2
|[[Aniruddha Bose]]
|24 May 2019
|10 April 2024
|Calcutta
|}
'''Judges Transferred/Elevated from the Calcutta High Court-'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Sr. No.
!Name of the Judge, Justice
!Recruitment
!Date of Appointment
!Date of Retirement
!Remark
|-
!1
|[[Biswanath Somadder]]
|BAR
|22 June 2006
|14 December 2025
|[[Chief Justice]] of [[Meghalaya High Court]]
|-
!2
|[[Dipankar Datta]]
|BAR
|22 June 2006
|8 February 2027
|[[Chief Justice]] of [[Bombay High Court]]
|-
!3
|[[Sanjib Banerjee]]
|BAR
|22 June 2006
|1 November 2023
|[[Chief Justice]] of [[Madras High Court]]
|-
!4
|Joymalya Bagchi
|BAR
|27 June 2011
|2 October 2028
|[[Judge]] of [[Andhra Pradesh High Court]]
|-
!5
|Sudip Ahluwalia
|SERVICE
|1 October 2013
|30 December 2021
|[[Judge]] of [[Punjab and Haryana High Court]]
|}
'''Sitting Judges of Calcutta High Court-'''{{See also|List of sitting judges of High Courts of India#Calcutta High Court}}

==Building==
The neo-Gothic High Court building was constructed in 1872, ten years after the establishment of the court itself.
The design, by then government architect Walter Granville, was loosely modelled on the 13th-century [[Cloth Hall, Ypres|Cloth Hall]] at [[Ypres]], [[Belgium]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# |title=Court's official website |access-date=7 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/# |archive-date=6 March 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
In 1977 another building named High Court Centenary Building or annexed building was inaugurated to reduce the pressure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/district_courts/citysessions.htm|title=CITY SESSIONS COURT, CALCUTTA|last=HISTORICAL BACKGROUND|website=calcuttahighcourt.nic.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209100032/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/district_courts/citysessions.htm#|archive-date=9 February 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=3 March 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Calcutta High Court Centenary Building - Kolkata 2011-12-18 0343.JPG|Calcutta High Court - Centenary Building
File:Calcutta High Court - New Multi-storey Building - Kolkata 2011-09-03 00472.jpg|Calcutta High Court - New Multi-storey Building
File:Calcutta High Court at night.jpg|Calcutta High Court at Night
File:Statues in Kolkata High Court. 04.jpg|Inside View of Calcutta High Court
File:Calcutta High Court - Sculptured on the pillar 09.jpg|Calcutta High Court - Sculptured Pillar
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Commons category}}
*[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]

==External links==
* [https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/ Official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/ Former official website]

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