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{{Short description|High Court for the states of Punjab and Haryana}}
{{redirect|Punjab High Court|the high court in Pakistan|Lahore High Court}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
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{{Infobox high court
|court_name=Punjab and Haryana High Court.
|native_name=
|image=Capitol High Court.jpg
|caption=Facade of the High Court Building
|location=[[Chandigarh]]
|type=[[President of India|Presidential]] with [[advice and consent|confirmation]] of [[Supreme Court Collegium including Chief Justice of India on recommendation of High Court Collegium]].
|Composition=
|appealsto=[[Supreme Court of India]]
|terms=Mandatory retirement at 62 years of age
|chiefjudgetitle=[[Chief Justice]]
|chiefjudgename=[[Ravi Shankar Jha]]
|termstart=6 October 2019
|positions=85 (64 Permanent, 21 Additional)
|authority=[[Constitution of India]]
|country={{flagu|India}}
|established= {{start date and age|df=yes|1947|08|15}}
|jurisdiction = [[Punjab]], [[Haryana]] and [[Chandigarh]]
|composition method=[[President of India|Presidential]] with [[advice and consent|confirmation]] of [[Chief Justice of India]] and [[Governors of states of India|Governor of respective state]]
|website={{URL|https://www.highcourtchd.gov.in|High Court of Punjab and Haryana}}
|image2 = Punjab and Haryana High Court Logo.png
}}
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'''Punjab and Haryana High Court''' is the common [[High courts in india|High Court]] for the Indian states of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] and [[Haryana]] and the Union Territory of Chandigarh based in [[Chandigarh]], India. Sanctioned strength of Judges of this High Court is 85 consisting of 64 Permanent Judges and 21 Additional Judges including Chief Justice. As of 27th April 2022, there are 47 Judges working in the High Court, comprising 41 Permanent and 6 Additional Judges.

The court building is known as the '''Palace of Justice'''. Designed by [[Le Corbusier]], it and several of his other works were inscribed as [[World Heritage Site|UNESCO World Heritage Sites]] in July 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1321/|website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|access-date=19 July 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/chandigarh-s-capitol-complex-is-now-a-unesco-heritage-site-all-you-need-to-know/story-B3hHy2vXiepSGyM5uXVOYJ.html|title=Chandigarh's Capitol Complex is now a UNESCO heritage site|access-date=18 July 2016}}</ref>
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[[Sarv Mittra Sikri]], who had been practising in the [[High Court of Punjab]] and remained [[Advocate General, Punjab]] from 1.11.1956 to 2.2.1964, was the first to be appointed as judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]] on 3.2.1964 directly from the Bar, who became [[Chief Justice of India]] on 22.1.1971 again with the distinction of being first and only [[Chief Justice of India]] directly from the Bar.

Past judges include [[Madan Mohan Punchhi]], [[P. Sathasivam]], [[Tirath Singh Thakur]], [[Jagdish Singh Khehar]] and [[Ranjan Gogoi]] who were elevated to the [[Supreme Court of India]] and became [[Chief Justice of India]].<ref name="AutoKW-2">{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/courts/hc-starts-e-filing-gets-wi-fi-complex/13112.html|title=HC starts e-filing, gets Wi-Fi complex|author=Tribune News Service}}</ref><ref name="AutoKW-3">http://highcourtchd.gov.in/sub_pages/left_menu/publish/announce/announce_pdf/protection_15032013.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref name="AutoKW-4">{{cite web|url=http://highcourtchd.gov.in/?trs=chief|title=Hon'ble Chief Justice and Judges of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana}}</ref>

== History ==
===Formation===
[[File:Lahore High Court 1880s.jpg|thumb|Lahore High Court building, c. 1880s.]]
Punjab and Haryana High Court was formerly known as [[Lahore]] [[High Court]], which was established on 21 March 1919. The jurisdiction of that court covered [[Punjab region|undivided Punjab]] and [[Delhi]]. From 1920 to 1943, the Court was conferred with [[extraterritorial jurisdiction]] over that part of China that formed part of the British consular district of [[Kashgar]], which had previously been under the jurisdiction of the [[British Supreme Court for China]].<ref>''The China (Kashgar) Order in Council, 1920'', {{London Gazette |issue= 31821|date= 12 March 1920|pages=3153–3163}}</ref> This ceased upon the ratification of the [[British-Chinese Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China]].<ref>{{cite web|title = Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China and the Regulation of Related Matters (Cmd. 6456)|url = http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/docs/pdf/1943/TS0002.pdf|date = 11 January 1943|publisher = [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]|access-date = 13 May 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143022/http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/docs/pdf/1943/TS0002.pdf|archive-date = 2 April 2015|url-status = dead}}, implemented by ''The China Order in Council, 1943'', {{London Gazette |issue= 36029|date= 25 May 1943|pages=2331–2332}}</ref>

===Independence-induced split===
Following the [[independence of India]] and its [[Partition of India|Partition]] on 15 August 1947, a separate [[High Court of East Punjab]] was created by the Governor General's [[High Courts (Punjab) Order, 1947]] issued under Section 9 of the [[Indian Independence Act, 1947]], based at historic [[Peterhoff, Shimla|Peterhoff]] building in [[Shimla]] for the territories as included in the then Province of East Punjab and the then Province of Delhi. This had jurisdiction over the erstwhile territories of [[Patiala and East Punjab States Union]] and the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province of British India]], which covers now areas of [[Punjab, India|Indian Punjab]], [[National Capital Territory|Delhi]], [[Himachal Pradesh]] and [[Haryana]]. It was at Peterhoff where [[Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi#Trial and judgments|the trial]] of [[Nathuram Godse]], who assassinated [[Mahatma Gandhi]], took place in 1948–49.<ref name="Heritage holidays">{{cite book | title=Heritage holidays | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nxuAAAAMAAJ | access-date=15 December 2012 | year=2004 | publisher=Outlook | page = 62 }}</ref>

On introduction of the Constitution of India on January 26, 1950, the State of East Punjab came to be known as the Punjab and accordingly, the name of the High Court was also changed as [[High Court of Punjab]]. Simultaneously, Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU), which was created by uniting eight princely states on 15 July 1948, was also made a Part 'B' State with a separate [[High Court of Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU)]]. As per Article 214(2) of the Constitution of India, the High Court was to be continued along with other High Courts.

From 17 January 1955, the Court was moved to its present location in Chandigarh.<ref name=harhchist1>[https://highcourtchd.gov.in/?trs=history Highcourt history]</ref>

By [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956]], Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) was merged in the State of Punjab on 1st November, 1966. The Judges of the High Court of Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) became Judges of the Punjab High Court. The strength of [[High Court of Punjab]], which had originally 8 Judges, rose to 13.

===Renaming and Reduction of Jurisdiction===
The ''[[Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966]]'' paved the way for the formation of Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh from 1 November 1966. Those formations also saw the renaming of the High Court of Punjab as the [[High Court of Punjab and Haryana]]. The Judges of the [[High Court of Punjab]] became Judges of the common High Court with all the powers and jurisdiction of the High Court of Punjab. However, the principal seat of the High Court remained at Chandigarh.<ref name=harhchist1/> Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh (also known simply as Chandigarh High Court) has original as well as appellate and supervisory jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to Chandigarh (a Union Territory and also capital of Punjab and Haryana), Punjab and Haryana.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://simranlaw.com/|title=Chandigarh High Court}}</ref> The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has operated since 1 November 1966 in its present form.<ref name=harhchist1/>

A Circuit Bench of the [[High Court of Punjab]] had been working at Delhi since 1952, which was replaced by constituting a separate High Court for the [[Union Territory of Delhi]] on October 31, 1966 under the ''Delhi High Court Act, 1966''. <ref>{{cite act |title= The Delhi High Court Act, 1966|type= Act|number= 26 |date= 1966 |url= https://www.lawassociatesguru.com}}</ref> Three Judges of the Punjab High Court were transferred to the [[Delhi High Court]], which includes a famous Judge-[[Hans Raj Khanna]].

Following area of [[State of Punjab]] namely [[Shimla]], [[Kangra]], [[Kullu]] and Lahaul and Spiti Districts; Nalagarh tehsil of Ambala District; Lohara, Amb and Una kanungo circles, some area of Santokhgarh kanungo circle and some other specified area of Una tehsil of Hoshiarpur District besides some parts of Dhar Kalan Kanungo circle of Pathankot tehsil of Gurdaspur District; were merged with Himachal Pradesh on 1 November 1966 as per Section 5 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 and thus the jurisdiction of the High Court was reduced.

===Chandigarh court building architecture===
[[Le Corbusier]], a well-known, French architect, was chosen to execute the project of building the high court. India's first Prime Minister, [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], enthusiastically supported the project and took a sustained interest in its execution. When he visited the project on 2 April 1952, he declared "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, an expression of the nation's faith in the future."{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

===List of Chief Justices===
* Legends:
** ''ACJ'' – Acting Chief Justice
** ''Res'' – Resigned

List of Chief Justices.<ref>[https://highcourtchd.gov.in/?trs=former_cj Hinadigarh High Court]</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Chief Justice
! Took office
! Left office
|-
! colspan="5" | '''Chief Court of the Punjab (1880–1919)'''
|-
| [[Henry Plowden|Sir Henry Meredyth Plowden]]
| {{dts|1880}} || {{dts|1895}}
|-
| [[Charles Arthur Roe|Sir Charles Arthur Roe]]
| {{dts|1895}} || {{dts|1898}}
|-
| Sir [[William Ovens Clark]]
| {{dts|1898}} || {{dts|1909}}
|-
| [[Arthur Hay Stewart Reid|Sir Arthur Hay Stewart Reid]]
| {{dts|1909}} || {{dts|1914}}
|-
| Sir [[Alfred Kensington]]
| {{dts|1914}} || {{dts|1915}}
|-
| Sir [[Donald Campbell Johnstone]]
| {{dts|1915}} || {{dts|1917}}
|-
| [[Henry Adolphus Rattigan|Sir Henry Adolphus Rattigan]]
| {{dts|1917}} || {{dts|1919}}
|- align=center
! colspan="5" | '''Lahore High Court (1920–1947)'''
|-
| Sir Shadi Lal
| {{dts|1920}} || {{dts|1934}}
|-
| [[Douglas Young (judge)|Sir John Douglas Young]]
| {{dts|1934}} || {{dts|1943}}
|-
| Sir [[Arthur Trevor Harries]]
| {{dts|1943}} || {{dts|1946}}
|-
| [[Mian Abdul Rashid|Sir Abdul Rashid]]
| {{dts|1946}} || {{dts|1947}}
|}
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!colspan=5|Chief Justices of Punjab High Court (1947–1966)
|-
!S. No.
!Name
!colspan=2|Tenure
!Oath Administered by
|-
!1
|Justice [[Ram Lall]]
|15 August 1947
|18 January 1949
|rowspan=4|[[Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi]]
|-
!2
|Justice [[Sudhi Ranjan Das]]
|19 January 1949
|21 January 1950
|-
!3
|Justice [[Eric Weston]]
|21 January 1950
|8 December 1952
|-
!4
|Justice [[Amar Nath Bandhari]]
|9 December 1952
|18 November 1959
|-
!5
|Justice [[Gopal Das Ghosla]]
|19 November 1959
|14 December 1961
|rowspan=2|[[Narhar Vishnu Gadgil]]
|-
!6
|Justice [[Donald Falshaw]]
|15 December 1961
|29 May 1966 {{small|(''Res'')}}
|-
!7
|Justice [[Mehar Singh]]
|29 May 1966
|''continued''
|[[Ujjal Singh]]
|-
!colspan=5|Chief Justices of Punjab and Haryana High Court (1966-till now)
|-
!7
|Justice [[Mehar Singh]]
|''continued''
|14 August 1970
| –
|-
!8
|Justice [[Harbans Singh]]
|15 August 1970
|8 April 1974
|[[D. C. Pavate]]
|-
!9
|Justice [[Daya Krishan Mahajan]]
|10 April 1974
|11 May 1974
|rowspan=3|[[Mahendra Mohan Choudhry]]
|-
!10
|Justice [[Ranjit Singh Narula]]
|11 May 1974
|31 November 1977 {{small|(''Res'')}}
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[O. Chinnappa Reddy]] {{small|(on appointment of R. S. Narula as acting [[Governor of Punjab, Pakistan|Governor of Punjab]])}}
|28 June 1976
|23 October 1976
|-
!11
|Justice [[Anand Dev Koshal]]
|1 November 1977
|17 July 1978
|[[Ranjit Singh Narula]]
|-
!12
|Justice [[Surjit Singh Sandhawalia]]
|17 July 1978
|28 November 1983
|[[Jaisukh lal Hathi]]
|-
!''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Prem Chand Jain]]
|28 November 1983
|31 July 1985
|[[Bhairab Dutt Pande]]
|-
!13
|1 August 1985
|18 August 1986
|[[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]]
|-
!14
|Justice [[Hariday Nath Seth]]
|18 August 1986
|14 October 1987
|rowspan=6|[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
|-
!15
|Justice [[Debi Singh Tewatia]]
|15 October 1987
|29 October 1987
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[R. N. Mittal]]
|30 October 1987
|11 November 1987
|-
!16
|Justice [[Veeraswami Ramaswamy]]
|12 November 1987
|6 October 1989
|-
!''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Shanti Sarup Dewan]]
|6 October 1989
|23 October 1989
|-
!17
|24 October 1989
|31 December 1989
|-
!''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Jitendra Vir Gupta]]
|1 January 1990
|8 July 1990
|[[Nirmal Mukarji]]
|-
!18
|9 July 1990
|1 May 1991 {{small|(''Res'')}}
|[[Virendra Verma]]
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Gokal Chand Mital]]
|19 May 1991
|4 August 1991
|rowspan=2|[[Om Prakash Malhotra]]
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Iqbal Singh Tiwana]]
|5 August 1991
|19 September 1991
|-
!19
|Justice [[Bipin Chandra Verma]]
|19 September 1991
|2 May 1992
|rowspan=6|[[Surendra Nath]]
|-
!20
|Justice [[Mandagadde Rama Jois]]
|3 May 1992
|31 August 1992
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[S. S. Sodhi]]
|1 September 1992
|12 November 1992
|-
!21
|Justice [[Sudarshan Dayal Agarwal]]
|13 November 1992
|14 January 1994
|-
!22
|Justice [[Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar]]
|16 January 1994
|27 March 1996
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[M. S. Liberhan]] {{small|(on appointment of S. P. Kurdukar as acting [[Governor of Punjab, Pakistan|Governor of Punjab]])}}
|10 July 1994
|16 August 1994
|-
!rowspan=2|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[R. P. Sethi]]
|16 August 1994 {{small|(on appointment of S. P. Kurdukar as acting [[Governor of Punjab, Pakistan|Governor of Punjab]])}}
|18 September 1994
|[[Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar]]
|-
|27 March 1996
|27 June 1996
|rowspan=5|[[B. K. N. Chhibber]]
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[M. S. Liberhan]]
|27 June 1996
|30 July 1996
|-
!23
|Justice [[K. Sreedharan]]
|30 July 1996
|18 October 1997
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Amarjeet Chaudhary]]
|18 October 1997
|7 November 1997
|-
!24
|Justice [[A. B. Saharya]]
|7 November 1997
|14 September 2002
|-
!rowspan=4|''ACJ''
|rowspan=4|Justice [[G. S. Singhvi]]
|28 January 2002
|17 April 2002
|rowspan=5|[[J. F. R. Jacob]]
|-
|5 August 2002
|11 August 2002
|-
|2 September 2002
|8 September 2002
|-
|14 September 2002
|14 October 2002
|-
!25
|Justice [[Binod Kumar Roy]]
|14 October 2002
|21 February 2005
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[G. S. Singhvi]]
|21 February 2005
|25 February 2005
|rowspan=11|[[Sunith Francis Rodrigues]]
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[H. S. Bedi]]
|26 February 2005
|11 March 2005
|-
!26
|Justice [[D. K. Jain]]
|11 March 2005
|9 April 2006
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[H. S. Bedi]]
|10 April 2006
|2 October 2006
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[S. S. Nijjar]]
|3 October 2006
|28 November 2006
|-
!27
|Justice [[Vijender Jain]]
|28 November 2006
|1 August 2008
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jagdish Singh Khehar]]
|2 August 2008
|11 August 2008
|-
!28
|Justice [[Tirath Singh Thakur]]
|11 August 2008
|16 November 2009
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jagdish Singh Khehar]]
|17 November 2009
|29 November 2009
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Mehtab Singh Gill]]
|29 November 2009
|5 December 2009
|-
!29
|Justice [[Mukul Mudgal]]
|5 December 2009
|3 January 2011
|-
!''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Ranjan Gogoi]]
|4 January 2011
|11 February 2011
|rowspan=11|[[Shivraj Patil]]
|-
!30
|12 February 2011
|22 April 2012
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Adrash Kumar Goel]] {{small|(during leave of Ranjan Gogoi)}}
|2 February 2011
|11 September 2011
|-
!rowspan=2|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[M. M. Kumar]]
|12 September 2011 {{small|(during leave of Ranjan Gogoi)}}
|9 November 2011
|-
|23 April 2012
|8 June 2012
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jasbir Singh]]
|8 June 2012
|23 September 2012
|-
!31
|Justice [[A. K. Sikri]]
|23 September 2012
|11 April 2013
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jasbir Singh]]
|12 April 2013
|31 May 2013
|-
!32
|Justice [[Sanjay Kishan Kaul]]
|1 June 2013
|25 July 2014
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Ashutosh Mohunta]]
|26 July 2014
|15 December 2014
|-
!''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Shiavax Jal Vazifdar]]
|15 December 2014
|6 August 2016
|-
!33
|7 August 2016
|3 May 2018
|[[Kaptan Singh Solanki]]
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Ajay Kumar Mittal]]
|4 May 2018
|2 June 2018
|rowspan=4|[[V. P. Singh Badnore]]
|-
!34
|Justice [[Krishna Murari]]
|2 June 2018
|22 September 2019
|-
!''ACJ''
|Justice [[Rajiv Sharma]]
|23 September 2019
|5 October 2019
|-
!35
|Justice [[Ravi Shankar Jha]]
|6 October 2019
|Incumbent
|}

==Current Judges==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center"
!Sr. No.!!|Designation!!|Name!!|Court No.!!|D. O. R.
|-
!1
|'''Chief Justice'''
|[[Ravi Shankar Jha]]
|1
|13.10.2023
|-
!2
|Justice
|Augustine George Masih
|2
|11.03.2025
|-
!3
|Justice
|Ritu Bahri
|3
|10.10.2024
|-
!4
|Justice
|Tejinder Singh Dhindsa
|4
|05.03.2023
|-
!5
|Justice
|Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia
|5
|31.10.2027
|-
!6
|Justice
|M.S. Sri Ramachandra Rao
|6
|06.08.2028
|-
!7
|Justice
|Amol Rattan Singh
|7
|18.08.2022
|-
!8
|Justice
|Fateh Deep Singh
|14
|07.07.2022
|-
!9
|Justice
|Harinder Singh Sidhu
|37
|16.05.2023
|-
!10
|Justice
|Arun Palli
|43
|17.09.2026
|-
!11
|Justice
|Lisa Gill
|11
|16.11.2028
|-
!12
|Justice
|Sureshwar Thakur
|69
|17.05.2025
|-
!13
|Justice
|Bawa Singh Walia
|20
|27.08.2023
|-
!14
|Justice
|Raj Mohan Singh
|10
|17.08.2024
|-
!15
|Justice
|Jaishree Thakur
|66
|23.07.2023
|-
!16
|Justice
|Deepak Sibal
|23
|02.09.2029
|-
!17
|Justice
|Anupinder Singh Grewal
|30
|09.03.2026
|-
!18
|Justice
|Harminder Singh Madaan
|55
|03.08.2023
|-
!19
|Justice
|Gurvinder Singh Gill
|64
|11.05.2026
|-
!20
|Justice
|Arvind Singh Sangwan
|67
|22.12.2024
|-
!21
|Justice
|Rajbir Sehrawat
|24
|30.10.2024
|-
!22
|Justice
|Anil Kshetarpal
|16
|18.11.2026
|-
!23
|Justice
|Avneesh Jhingan
|42
|28.01.2031
|-
!24
|Justice
|Mahabir Singh Sindhu
|29
|03.04.2029
|-
!25
|Justice
|Sudhir Mittal
|38
|05.06.2023
|-
!26
|Justice
|Manjari Nehru Kaul
|56
|04.10.2025
|-
!27
|Justice
|Harsimran Singh Sethi
|28
|21.10.2029
|-
!28
|Justice
|Arun Monga
|13
|20.12.2030
|-
!29
|Justice
|Manoj Bajaj
|61
|22.06.2028
|-
!30
|Justice
|Lalit Batra
|58
|30.05.2024
|-
!31
|Justice
|Harnaresh Singh Gill
|50
|25.09.2023
|-
!32
|Justice
|Anoop Chitkara
|54
|28.04.2028
|-
!33
|Justice
|Suvir Sehgal
|62
|06.06.2027
|-
!34
|Justice
|Alka Sarin
|48
|20.06.2028
|-
!35
|Justice
|Jasgurpreet Singh Puri
|65
|29.08.2027
|-
!36
|Justice
|Ashok Kumar Verma
|36
|08.06.2023
|-
!37
|Justice
|Meenakshi I. Mehta
|63
|08.03.2026
|-
!38
|Justice
|Karamjit Singh
|45
|16.04.2025
|-
!39
|Justice
|Vivek Puri
|57
|11.01.2024
|-
!40
|Justice
|Archana Puri
|47
|12.12.2026
|-
!41
|Justice
|Rajesh Bhardwaj
|46
|09.01.2028
|-
!42
|Justice
|Vikas Bahl
|49
|(Addl.-24.05.2023)
|-
!43
|Justice
|Vikas Suri
|19
|(Addl.-27.10.2023)
|-
!44
|Justice
|Sandeep Moudgil
|21
|(Addl.-27.10.2023)
|-
!45
|Justice
|Vinod Sharma (Bhardwaj)
|22
|(Addl.-27.10.2023)
|-
!46
|Justice
|Pankaj Jain
|25
|(Addl.-27.10.2023)
|-
!47
|Justice
|Jasjit Singh Bedi
|53
|(Addl.-27.10.2023)
|-
|}

==List of former Chief Justices==
===Notes===
*''ACJ'' – Acting Chief Justice
*''Res'' – Resigned
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!S. No.
!Name<ref>{{cite web|url=https://highcourtchd.gov.in/?trs=former_cj|title=former chief justices of Punjab and Haryana High Court}}</ref>
!colspan=2|Tenure
|-
|1
|Justice [[Ram Lall]]
|15 August 1947
|18 January 1949
|-
|2
|Justice [[Sudhi Ranjan Das]]
|19 January 1949
|21 January 1950
|-
|3
|Justice [[Eric Weston]]
|21 January 1950
|8 December 1952
|-
|4
|Justice [[Amar Nath Bandhari]]
|9 December 1952
|18 November 1959
|-
|5
|Justice [[Gopal Das Ghosla]]
|19 November 1959
|14 December 1961
|-
|6
|Justice [[Donald Falshaw]]
|15 December 1961
|29 May 1966 {{small|(''Res'')}}
|-
|7
|Justice [[Mehar Singh (chief justice)|Mehar Singh]]
|29 May 1966
|14 August 1970
|-
|8
|Justice [[Harbans Singh (chief justice)|Harbans Singh]]
|15 August 1970
|8 April 1974
|-
|9
|Justice [[Daya Krishan Mahajan]]
|10 April 1974
|11 May 1974
|-
|10
|Justice [[Ranjit Singh Narula]]
|11 May 1974
|31 November 1977 {{small|(''Res'')}}
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[O. Chinnappa Reddy]] {{small|(on appointment of R. S. Narula as acting [[List of Governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab]])}}
|28 June 1976
|23 October 1976
|-
|11
|Justice [[Anand Dev Koshal]]
|1 November 1977
|17 July 1978
|-
|12
|Justice [[Surjit Singh Sandhawalia]]
|17 July 1978
|28 November 1983
|-
|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Prem Chand Jain]]
|28 November 1983
|31 July 1985
|-
|13
|1 August 1985
|18 August 1986
|-
|14
|Justice [[Hariday Nath Seth]]
|18 August 1986
|14 October 1987
|-
|15
|Justice [[Debi Singh Tewatia]]
|15 October 1987
|29 October 1987
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[R. N. Mittal]]
|30 October 1987
|11 November 1987
|-
|16
|Justice [[Veeraswami Ramaswamy]]
|12 November 1987
|6 October 1989
|-
|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Shanti Sarup Dewan]]
|6 October 1989
|23 October 1989
|-
|17
|24 October 1989
|31 December 1989
|-
|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Jitendra Vir Gupta]]
|1 January 1990
|8 July 1990
|-
|18
|9 July 1990
|1 May 1991 {{small|(''Res'')}}
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Gokal Chand Mital]]
|19 May 1991
|4 August 1991
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Iqbal Singh Tiwana]]
|5 August 1991
|19 September 1991
|-
|19
|Justice [[Bipin Chandra Verma]]
|19 September 1991
|2 May 1992
|-
|20
|Justice [[Mandagadde Rama Jois]]
|3 May 1992
|31 August 1992
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[S. S. Sodhi]]
|1 September 1992
|12 November 1992
|-
|21
|Justice [[Sudarshan Dayal Agarwal]]
|13 November 1992
|14 January 1994
|-
|22
|Justice [[Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar]]
|16 January 1994
|27 March 1996
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[M. S. Liberhan]] {{small|(on appointment of S. P. Kurdukar as acting [[List of Governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab]])}}
|10 July 1994
|16 August 1994
|-
|rowspan=2|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[R. P. Sethi]]
|16 August 1994 {{small|(on appointment of S. P. Kurdukar as acting [[List of Governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab]])}}
|18 September 1994
|-
|27 March 1996
|27 June 1996
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[M. S. Liberhan]]
|27 June 1996
|30 July 1996
|-
|23
|Justice [[K. Sreedharan]]
|30 July 1996
|18 October 1997
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Amarjeet Chaudhary]]
|18 October 1997
|7 November 1997
|-
|24
|Justice [[A. B. Saharya]]
|7 November 1997
|14 September 2002
|-
|rowspan=4|''ACJ''
|rowspan=4|Justice [[G. S. Singhvi]]
|28 January 2002
|17 April 2002
|-
|5 August 2002
|11 August 2002
|-
|2 September 2002
|8 September 2002
|-
|14 September 2002
|14 October 2002
|-
|25
|Justice [[Binod Kumar Roy]]
|14 October 2002
|21 February 2005
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[G. S. Singhvi]]
|21 February 2005
|25 February 2005
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[H. S. Bedi]]
|26 February 2005
|11 March 2005
|-
|26
|Justice [[D. K. Jain]]
|11 March 2005
|9 April 2006
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[H. S. Bedi]]
|10 April 2006
|2 October 2006
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[S. S. Nijjar]]
|3 October 2006
|28 November 2006
|-
|27
|Justice [[Vijender Jain]]
|28 November 2006
|1 August 2008
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jagdish Singh Khehar]]
|2 August 2008
|11 August 2008
|-
|28
|Justice [[Tirath Singh Thakur]]
|11 August 2008
|16 November 2009
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jagdish Singh Khehar]]
|17 November 2009
|29 November 2009
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Mehtab Singh Gill]]
|29 November 2009
|5 December 2009
|-
|29
|Justice [[Mukul Mudgal]]
|5 December 2009
|3 January 2011
|-
|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Ranjan Gogoi]]
|4 January 2011
|11 February 2011
|-
|30
|12 February 2011
|22 April 2012
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Adarsh Kumar Goel]] {{small|(during leave of Ranjan Gogoi)}}
|2 February 2011
|11 September 2011
|-
|rowspan=2|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[M. M. Kumar]]
|12 September 2011 {{small|(during leave of Ranjan Gogoi)}}
|9 November 2011
|-
|23 April 2012
|8 June 2012
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jasbir Singh]]
|8 June 2012
|23 September 2012
|-
|31
|Justice [[Arjan Kumar Sikri]]
|23 September 2012
|11 April 2013
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Jasbir Singh]]
|12 April 2013
|31 May 2013
|-
|32
|Justice [[Sanjay Kishan Kaul]]
|1 June 2013
|25 July 2014
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Ashutosh Mohanta]]
|26 July 2014
|15 December 2014
|-
|''ACJ''
|rowspan=2|Justice [[Shiavax Jal Vazifdar]]
|15 December 2014
|6 August 2016
|-
|33
|7 August 2016
|3 May 2018
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Ajay Kumar Mittal]]
|4 May 2018
|2 June 2018
|-
|34
|Justice [[Krishna Murari]]
|2 June 2018
|22 September 2019
|-
|''ACJ''
|Justice [[Rajeev Sharma]]
|23 September 2019
|5 October 2019
|-
|35
|Justice [[Ravi Shankar Jha]]
|6 October 2019
|Incumbent
|}

==Digitization==
Punjab and Haryana high court is high court where entire record of the decision and pending cases have been digitized.<ref>{{cite news |title=Punjab & Haryana HC Launches Project For Digitization Of Judicial Records In Subordinate Courts |url=https://www.livelaw.in/Punjab-Haryana-hc-launches-project-for-digitization-of-judicial-records-in-subordinate-courts/ |access-date=21 December 2018 |publisher=Apoorva Mandhini |date=27 October 2018}}</ref> Digitized record paved way for many unique applications such as
#Issuance of certified copies directly from digitized records depository as it is digitally signed.
#Availability of records of decided and pending cases for court reference in soft form.
#Facility of inspection of case files in soft copy from DMS(e- inspection).
#To provide paper books to the all e-diary account holders.
#Use of digitized records for the issuance of e- notices by the court.
#Any hard copy of a paper book, if lost, can be reconstructed without any loss of time, if required.

The figures of the work done are as under:<ref>{{cite journal |title=Justice Rajesh Bindal Chairman, Computer Committee Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh |journal=Justice Rajesh Bindal Chairman, Computer Committee Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh |pages=17 |url=https://highcourtchd.gov.in/sub_pages/left_menu/publish/articles/articles_pdf/Compt_Phhc_23012018_2fb51.pdf |access-date=21 December 2018}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Digitization Statistics:

! Figures
|-
| Judicial files pages scanned
| 14.71 crores
|-
| paper books scanned
| 26.25 lakhs
|-
|orders scanned
|59.64 lakhs
|-
|Old copy petitions pages scanned
|10.38 lakhs
|-
|Pages of administration files scanned
|1.21 crores
|}

===Virtual private network===
VPN connection has been provided to honourable judges of high court for accessing DMS for scanned paper books from their camp office or from any other place.<ref>{{cite news |title=Punjab and Haryana High Court gets Virtual Private Network for hassle-free judgments |url=https://www.livelaw.in/Punjab-Haryana-high-court-gets-virtual-private-network-hassle-free-judgments/ |access-date=21 December 2018 |publisher=Apoorva Mandhani |date=16 July 2014}}</ref>

===e- diary===
e-diary is a feature whereby account holders can manage their own case portfolio and view the cases filed or represented by them. Online status of the case along with [[Interim order|interim]] and final orders/ judgments were made available through e-diary.<ref>{{cite news |title=All decided cases in Punjab and Haryana HC digitized; e-Filing and e-Diary software prepared |url=https://www.livelaw.in/decided-cases-punjab-haryana-hc-digitized-e-filing-e-diary-software-prepared/ |access-date=21 December 2018 |publisher=Apoorva Mandani |date=5 April 2016}}</ref> All identified cases of different departments such as Income tax department, Insurance company, Union of India, Advocates General of Punjab and Haryana are automatically pushed in their online e-diary accounts. In addition to the e-diary system, the state governments are in develop court cases monitoring system(CCMS) through which they will monitor pending cases in the Supreme court of India.<ref>{{cite news |title=Govt issues guidelines on court cases |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140717/haryana.htm |access-date=21 December 2018 |date=16 July 2018}}</ref>

===e- filing===
Online web based e- filing module is functional for filing cases 24 X 7.e- filed cases expedite issuance of copies of orders, summons and is a step towards paperless court regime. It is made compulsory to file cases on online.<ref>{{cite news |title=With e-filing beginning today,Punjab and Haryana HC all set to go paperless |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/with-efiling-beginning-today-punjab-and-haryana-hc-all-set-to-go-paperless/ |access-date=21 December 2018 |publisher=Raghav Ohri |date=16 April 2014}}</ref>

===Personal information system===
In the house, the software has been developed, which contains personal profile and service record of the judicial officer. Access to relevant information has been given at different levels such as Administrative judge, registrar general, registrar vigilance, district judge and the officer concerned.

===Updating information of case after final decision===
Decided cases are available on the website of the high court. On many occasions, the final order is reviewed/ modified or challenged by filing into court appeal. Status subsequent to final disposal of the matter is shown and when print out of final order is taken from the website. The printout carries a message showing the up-to-date status of the case.

==Precedence setting cases==
In a case of [[Cattle theft in India#Cattle smuggling in India|cow-smuggling]], the Punjab and Haryana High Court while treating animals as the "[[Legal person#India|legal person]]" mandated that ''"entire animal kingdom including avian and aquatic"'' species has a ''"distinct legal persona with corresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person"'' and humans are ''"loco parentis"'' while laying out the norms for animal welfare, veterinary treatment, fodder and shelter, e.g. animal drawn carriages must not have more than four humans, and [[Working animal|load carrying animals]] must not be loaded beyond the specified limits and those limits must be halved when animals have to carry the load up a slope.<ref name=IndiaLaw>[https://qz.com/india/1636326/who-apart-from-human-beings-are-legal-persons-in-india/ Birds to holy rivers: A list of everything India considers “legal persons”], [[Quartz (publication)]], September 2019.</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of World Heritage Sites in India]]

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