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|established = 29 August 1949
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|location = Principal Seat: [[Jodhpur]], [[Rajasthan]]<br />
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|chiefjudgename =  [[Indrajit Mahanty]]
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[[File:JODHPUR 1960.jpg|thumb|right|300px|View of the Rajasthan High Court, Sardar museum in Umaid Park and upper right is Jodhpur fort in 1960.]]
[[File:JODHPUR 1960.jpg|thumb|right|300px|View of the Rajasthan High Court, Sardar museum in Umaid Park and upper right is Jodhpur fort in 1960.]]


There were five High Courts functioning in the various units of the States - at Jodhpur, Jaipur and Bikaner, the High Courts of former Rajasthan and Matsya Union, before unification of the Rajasthan.  The Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949 abolished these different jurisdictions and provided for a single High Court for the entire State. The High Court of Rajasthan was founded in 1949 at Jaipur, and was inaugurated by the [[Rajpramukh]], Maharaja Sawai Man Singh on 29 August 1949, later on after complete integration of Rajasthan in 1956 it was moved at Jodhpur with recommendation of satyanarayan rao committee.
There were five High Courts functioning in the various units of the States - at Jodhpur, Jaipur and Bikaner, the High Courts of former Rajasthan and Matsya Union, before unification of the Rajasthan.  The Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949 abolished these different jurisdictions and provided for a single High Court for the entire State. The High Court of Rajasthan was founded in 1949 at Jaipur, and was inaugurated by the [[Rajpramukh]], Maharaja Sawai Man Singh on 29 August 1949, later on after complete integration of Rajasthan in 1956 it was moved at Jodhpur with recommendation of the Satyanarayan Rao committee.


The first Chief Justice was Kamala Kant Verma. A bench was formed at [[Jaipur]] on 31 January 1977 under sub-section (2) of Section 51 of the [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956]] which was dissolved in 1958. Currently the sanctioned strength of the judges is 50 and actual strength is 34.
The first Chief Justice was Kamala Kant Verma. A bench was formed at [[Jaipur]] on 31 January 1977 under sub-section (2) of Section 51 of the [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956]] which was dissolved in 1958. Currently the sanctioned strength of the judges is 50 and actual strength is 34.


==The Chief Justice==
== List of chief justices ==
Currently the Chief Justice of the court is Justice [[Indrajit Mahanty]].<ref>[https://hcraj.nic.in/hcraj/jphoto.php Hon'ble The Chief Justice & Judges]</ref> Born on 11 November 1960 at Cuttack in the State of Orissa to late Ranjit Mahanty, Barrister at Law and advocate Smt. Shakuntala Mahanty. Studied up to +2 at Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling (West Bengal), thereafter obtained B.Com (Hons.) from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (Orissa), LL.B. at Campus Law Center, Delhi University, and thereafter LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (England).
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Enrolled as an advocate with Orissa State Council in 1984, and began legal practice under his father late Br. Ranjit Mahanty till his demise in the year 1989. Thereafter started independent practice in the field of Commercial Law, Arbitration, Taxation, Civil and Criminal, Writs & Service Law before the Civil Court, Orissa High Court and the Supreme Court of India, as well as, conducted few arbitration proceedings at London.
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Elected to the Orissa State Bar Council of India from 1989 to 2006 and elected to represent Orissa State in the Bar council of India between 1998 and 2003. Elected as the Managing Trustee of Bar Council of India Trust in the year 2003. Member of Board of Governors, National Law School of India University (Bangalore) from 2000 to 2003, and NALSAR (Hyderabad) from 2000 to 2002, Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling between 1997 and 1999 and Lawrence School (Lovedale) Ooty from 2002 till 2006. Life member of Orissa High Court Bar Association as well as member of the Supreme Court Bar Association. Elevated as Judge of the Orissa High Court on 30 March 2006. Took oath as a Judge of the Bombay High Court on 14 November 2018. Took oath as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 06.10.2019.<ref>[https://hcraj.nic.in/hcraj/imahanty.php Hon'ble Mr. Justice Indrajit Mahanty]</ref>
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!Term
!Remarks
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!1
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|[[Sir]] [[Sarat Kumar Ghosh]]
|1947 – 1949
|Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh or Ghose, ICS was an Indian civil servant and a jurist.
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!2
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| Kamala Kant Verma
| 29 August 1949&ndash;1950
| the 1st Indian Chief Justice of [[Allahabad High Court]]
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!3
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|[[Kailas Nath Wanchoo]]
| 1951&ndash;1958
|a member of the first Lok Sabha and a freedom fighter.
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!4
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| Sarju Prasad
| 1959&ndash;1961
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!5
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| J.S. Ranawat
| 1961 – 1963
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!6
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| D.S. Dave
| 1963–1964
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!7
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|[[Daulat Mal Bhandari]]
| 1964–1969
| a member of the first Lok Sabha and a freedom fighter
|-
!8
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| J. Narayan
| 1969–1969
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|-
!9
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| B.P. Beri
| 1969–1969
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|-
!10
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| P.N. Shinghal
| 1969–1970
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!11
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| V.P. Tyagi
| 1970–1970
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|-
!12
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| C. Honniah
| 1970–1971
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!13
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|[[Chand Mal Lodha]]
| 1971–1980
| chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court and the Guwahati High Court.
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!14
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| K.D. Sharma
| 1980–1981
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|-
!15
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| P.K. Banerjee
| 1981 –1982
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|-
!16
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| D.P. Gupta
| 1982–1985
|
|-
!17
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|[[J. S. Verma]]
| 1985–1986
| the 27th Chief Justice of India from 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998. He was the chairman of National Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2003, and chairman of the Justice Verma Committee
|-
!18
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|[[Krishna Chandra Agarwal]]
| 1986 –1994
| Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and Calcutta High Court.
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!19
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| G.C. Mittal
| 1994–1995
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|-
!20
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| A.P. Ravani
| 1995–1996
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|-
!21
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|[[Mukul Gopal Mukherjee]]
| 1996–1999
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|-
!22
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| Shivaraj V Patil
| 1999–2000
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|-
!23
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|[[A. R. Lakshmanan]]
| 2000–2002
|Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court in 2000 and Andhra Pradesh High Court in 2001. He retired in 2007.chairman of the Law Commission of India during 2006-2009
|-
!24
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| Arun Kumar
| 2002–2002
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|-
!25
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| Anil Dev Singh
| 2002–2004
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!26
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| S. N. Jha
|2004–2005
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!27
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| J. M. Panchal
|2006–2006
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!28
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| Rajesh Bhalla
|2006&ndash;2008
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!29
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| Narayan Roy
| 2008–2008
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!30
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|[[Deepak Verma (judge)|Deepak Verma]]
| 2008–2009
|Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka [6][7] and Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.Chairperson and member of the Advisory Committee of several renowned academic institutions and universities in India.
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!31
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|[[Jagadish Bhalla]]
| 10 August 2009&ndash;31 October 2010
|Former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan High Court
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!32
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|[[Arun Kumar Mishra]]
| 1 November 2010&ndash;2 January 2013
| judge of the Supreme Court of India.Mishra has taken several steps to dovetail technology in functions of Rajasthan High Court. His initiatives include publication of first ever Newsletter of Rajasthan High Court and inauguration of a Museum.Chief Justice of the High Court at Calcutta.
|-
!33
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|[[Amitava Roy]]
| 2 January 2013&ndash; 5 August 2014
| judge of the Supreme Court of India and former Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court[1] and Rajasthan High Court.made it compulsory for cinema halls across India to play the National Anthem of India before the screening of any film, and mandated that the audience stand while the National Anthem was played
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!34
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|S. K. Mittal
|6 August 2014- 13 May 2016
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!35
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|[[Navin Sinha]]
|14 May 2016- 16 February 2017
| Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Chief justice of Chhattisgarh High Court and after that as the Chief justice of Rajasthan High Court
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!36
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|[[Pradeep Nandrajog]]
|2 April 2017- 6 April 2019
| Presently, he is Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and former Chief justice of Rajasthan High Court and Judge of Delhi High Court
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!37
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|[[Mohammad Rafiq (judge)|Mohammad Rafiq]]
|7 April 2019 - 4 May 2019
| appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 7 April 2019 after transfer of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog to Bombay High Court.
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!38
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|[[Shripathi Ravindra Bhat]]
|5 May 2019 - 22 September 2019
|  Judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.[1] He is also former Judge of Delhi High Court.
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!(37)
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|[[Mohammad Rafiq (judge)|Mohammad Rafiq]]
|23 September 2019 - 5 Oct 2019
| appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 23 September 2019 after elevation of Justice Shripathi Ravindra Bhat to Supreme Court of India.
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!39
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|[[Indrajit Mahanty]]
|6 October 2019-oct 11 2021
| Appointed as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 6 October 2019. He is former Judge of Bombay High Court.
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!40
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|[[Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi]]
|12 October Incumbent
|Appointment as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 9 October 2021. He is former Chief Justice of Tripura High Court and former Judge of High Court of Gujarat<ref>{{Cite web|last=Upadhyay|first=Sparsh|date=2021-10-09|title=Breaking: Centre Notifies Appointment Of Justice Akil Kureshi As The Chief Justice Of Rajasthan High Court|url=https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/centre-appoints-justice-akil-kureshi-chief-justice-rajasthan-high-court-183483|access-date=2021-10-21|website=www.livelaw.in|language=en}}</ref>
|}


==Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, Jaipur==
==Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, Jaipur==

Latest revision as of 17:00, 3 January 2022

Rajasthan High Court
Established29 August 1949; 76 years ago (1949-08-29)
JurisdictionRajasthan
LocationPrincipal Seat: Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Circuit Bench: Jaipur
Coordinates26°17′32″N 73°02′07″E / 26.292246°N 73.035172°E / 26.292246; 73.035172
Composition methodPresidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorized byConstitution of India
Appeals toSupreme Court of India
Judge term lengthmandatory retirement by age of 62
Number of positions50
(Permanent: 38 ; Addl: 12)
Websitehttp://hcraj.nic.in/
Chief Justice
CurrentlyAkil Kureshi
Since12 October 2021

The Rajasthan High Court is the High Court of the state of Rajasthan. It was established on 29 August 1949 under the Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949.

The seat of the court is at Jodhpur. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 50.

View of the Rajasthan High Court, Sardar museum in Umaid Park and upper right is Jodhpur fort in 1960.

There were five High Courts functioning in the various units of the States - at Jodhpur, Jaipur and Bikaner, the High Courts of former Rajasthan and Matsya Union, before unification of the Rajasthan. The Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949 abolished these different jurisdictions and provided for a single High Court for the entire State. The High Court of Rajasthan was founded in 1949 at Jaipur, and was inaugurated by the Rajpramukh, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh on 29 August 1949, later on after complete integration of Rajasthan in 1956 it was moved at Jodhpur with recommendation of the Satyanarayan Rao committee.

The first Chief Justice was Kamala Kant Verma. A bench was formed at Jaipur on 31 January 1977 under sub-section (2) of Section 51 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 which was dissolved in 1958. Currently the sanctioned strength of the judges is 50 and actual strength is 34.

List of chief justices[edit | edit source]

# Portrait Chief Justice Term Remarks
1 Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh 1947 – 1949 Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh or Ghose, ICS was an Indian civil servant and a jurist.
2 Kamala Kant Verma 29 August 1949–1950 the 1st Indian Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
3 Kailas Nath Wanchoo 1951–1958 a member of the first Lok Sabha and a freedom fighter.
4 Sarju Prasad 1959–1961
5 J.S. Ranawat 1961 – 1963
6 D.S. Dave 1963–1964
7 Daulat Mal Bhandari 1964–1969 a member of the first Lok Sabha and a freedom fighter
8 J. Narayan 1969–1969
9 B.P. Beri 1969–1969
10 P.N. Shinghal 1969–1970
11 V.P. Tyagi 1970–1970
12 C. Honniah 1970–1971
13 Chand Mal Lodha 1971–1980 chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court and the Guwahati High Court.
14 K.D. Sharma 1980–1981
15 P.K. Banerjee 1981 –1982
16 D.P. Gupta 1982–1985
17 J. S. Verma 1985–1986 the 27th Chief Justice of India from 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998. He was the chairman of National Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2003, and chairman of the Justice Verma Committee
18 Krishna Chandra Agarwal 1986 –1994 Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and Calcutta High Court.
19 G.C. Mittal 1994–1995
20 A.P. Ravani 1995–1996
21 Mukul Gopal Mukherjee 1996–1999
22 Shivaraj V Patil 1999–2000
23 A. R. Lakshmanan 2000–2002 Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court in 2000 and Andhra Pradesh High Court in 2001. He retired in 2007.chairman of the Law Commission of India during 2006-2009
24 Arun Kumar 2002–2002
25 Anil Dev Singh 2002–2004
26 S. N. Jha 2004–2005
27 J. M. Panchal 2006–2006
28 Rajesh Bhalla 2006–2008
29 Narayan Roy 2008–2008
30 Deepak Verma 2008–2009 Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka [6][7] and Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.Chairperson and member of the Advisory Committee of several renowned academic institutions and universities in India.
31 Jagadish Bhalla 10 August 2009–31 October 2010 Former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan High Court
32 Arun Kumar Mishra 1 November 2010–2 January 2013 judge of the Supreme Court of India.Mishra has taken several steps to dovetail technology in functions of Rajasthan High Court. His initiatives include publication of first ever Newsletter of Rajasthan High Court and inauguration of a Museum.Chief Justice of the High Court at Calcutta.
33 Amitava Roy 2 January 2013– 5 August 2014 judge of the Supreme Court of India and former Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court[1] and Rajasthan High Court.made it compulsory for cinema halls across India to play the National Anthem of India before the screening of any film, and mandated that the audience stand while the National Anthem was played
34 S. K. Mittal 6 August 2014- 13 May 2016
35 Navin Sinha 14 May 2016- 16 February 2017 Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Chief justice of Chhattisgarh High Court and after that as the Chief justice of Rajasthan High Court
36 Pradeep Nandrajog 2 April 2017- 6 April 2019 Presently, he is Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and former Chief justice of Rajasthan High Court and Judge of Delhi High Court
37 Mohammad Rafiq 7 April 2019 - 4 May 2019 appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 7 April 2019 after transfer of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog to Bombay High Court.
38 Shripathi Ravindra Bhat 5 May 2019 - 22 September 2019 Judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.[1] He is also former Judge of Delhi High Court.
(37) Mohammad Rafiq 23 September 2019 - 5 Oct 2019 appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 23 September 2019 after elevation of Justice Shripathi Ravindra Bhat to Supreme Court of India.
39 Indrajit Mahanty 6 October 2019-oct 11 2021 Appointed as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 6 October 2019. He is former Judge of Bombay High Court.
40 Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi 12 October Incumbent Appointment as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 9 October 2021. He is former Chief Justice of Tripura High Court and former Judge of High Court of Gujarat[1]

Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, Jaipur[edit | edit source]

Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, Jaipur is a registered society of the Advocates practicing at Jaipur Bench of Rajasthan High Court. The body elects its office bearers through direct election every year.

Statue of Manu[edit | edit source]

On March 3, 1989, the Rajasthan Judicial Officers Association sponsored by the Lions Club had installed a Manu idol in front of the lawn of the high court with the permission of the high court..

See also[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Upadhyay, Sparsh (9 October 2021). "Breaking: Centre Notifies Appointment Of Justice Akil Kureshi As The Chief Justice Of Rajasthan High Court". www.livelaw.in. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  2. ↑ https://hcraj.nic.in/hcraj/jphoto.php

References[edit | edit source]

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