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{{Infobox high court
{{Infobox high court
|court_name =
| court_name = Calcutta High Court
|image = Calcutta High Court.jpg
| native_name =  
|imagesize = 250px
| image = Calcutta highcourt.jpg
|caption = Calcutta High Court Building
| caption = Calcutta High Court building
|established = {{start date and age|df=yes|1862|07|01}}
| established = {{start date and age|df=yes|1862|07|01}}
|location = Principal Seat: [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]<br />  
| jurisdiction = [[West Bengal]] and [[Andaman & Nicobar Islands]]
Circuit Benches: [[Jalpaiguri]] & [[Port Blair]] ([[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|A & N Islands]])  
| location = Principal Seat: [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]<br />  
|coordinates={{coord|22|34|6|N|88|20|36|E|type:landmark_region:IN|display=title,inline}}
Circuit Benches: [[Jalpaiguri]] & [[Port Blair]] ([[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|A & N Islands]])
|type = [[President of India|Presidential]] with [[advice and consent|confirmation]] of [[Chief Justice of India]] and [[Governors of states of India|Governor of respective state]].
| coordinates = {{coord|22|34|6|N|88|20|36|E|type:landmark_region:IN|display=title,inline}}
|authority = [[Constitution of India]]
| type = [[President of India|Presidential]] with [[advice and consent|confirmation]] of [[Chief Justice of India]] and [[Governors of states of India|Governor of respective state]].
|terms = Till 62 years of age
| authority = [[Constitution of India]]
|positions = 72 <br> {54 Permanent ; 18 Addl.}
| terms = Till 62 years of age
|website = [http://calcuttahighcourt.gov.in calcuttahighcourt.gov.in]
| positions = 72
|chiefjudgetitle = [[Chief Justice]]
| website = [http://calcuttahighcourt.gov.in calcuttahighcourt.gov.in]
|chiefjudgename = [[Rajesh Bindal]]<ref>http://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/CJ-and-Judges</ref>(acting)
| chiefjudgetitle = [[Chief Justice]]
|termstart =29 April 2021
| chiefjudgename = [[Sujoy Paul]]  
|termend =
| termstart = 16 January 2026
| termend =  
}}
}}


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>
'''Calcutta High Court''' is the oldest [[High Courts of India|High Court]] in [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Which is the oldest High Court in India? |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/calcutta-high-court-which-is-the-oldest-high-court-in-india-article-95161438 |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=TimesNow |date=29 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref> It is located at [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade Row West]], [[Kolkata]] (also scribed as ''Calcutta''), [[West Bengal]]. It has jurisdiction over the [[Indian state|state]] of [[West Bengal]] and the [[Union Territory]] of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]. The Gothic Revival building was completed in 1872, and designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=The High Court, Kolkata, by Walter L. B. Granville (1819-1874) |url=https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/granville/2.html |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=victorianweb.org}}</ref>


The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 72. The structure was designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville.
Currently, the court has a [[Judiciary of India#Judge strength|sanctioned judge strength]] of 72.


==History==
==History==
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 1860.jpg|thumb|Calcutta High Court in the 1860s]]
[[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.
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]], and is the oldest High Court in India. It was brought into existence as the '''High Court of Judicature at Fort William''' by the Letters Patent dated 14 May 1862,<ref>[https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/ A Brief History about Calcutta High Court]</ref> issued under the [[Indian High Courts Act 1861|High Courts Act, 1861]], which was preceded by the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William]]. The court was formally opened on 1 July 1862.
 
The building was designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville, and loosely modelled on the [[Ypres Cloth Hall]] in [[Flanders]], [[Belgium]], with a similar long facade of serried Gothic pointed arches, and a tall central tower with corner spires.<ref name="auto">{{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> It is constructed of red brick with stucco dressings above a vaulted cloister of Barakur sandstone. It has been described  as the only significant secular Gothic building in the city, something of an aberration amid the neoclassical edifices of other government buildings, such as Granville's own earlier [[General Post Office, Kolkata|General Post Office]] building in Dalhousie Square.<ref name=":1" />
 
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 [[Madras High Court|Chennai]] and [[Bombay High Court|Mumbai]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cabinet-renames-bombay-madras-calcutta-high-courts-kolkata-mumbai-chennai/|title=Cabinet renames high courts in Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai|date=5 July 2016}}</ref> The Bill called High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 19 July 2016<ref>{{cite news|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|newspaper=The Hindu|date=20 July 2016|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==
==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]].
The seat of the Calcutta High Court is [[Kolkata]], the [[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)|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==
==Chief Justice and Judges==
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>
The court has a Sanctioned strength of '''72 (Permanent:54, Additional:18)''' judges.


[[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.
'''Sitting Judges of Calcutta High Court-'''{{See also|List of sitting judges of High Courts of India#Calcutta High Court}}


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>
Currently, Justice [[Sujoy Paul]] is the Chief Justice of the court. 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. Sir [[Romesh Chandra Mitra]] was the first officiating Indian Chief Justice and Phani Bhushan Chakravartti was the first permanent Indian Chief Justice of the court. The longest-serving Chief Justice was Justice Sankar Prasad Mitra.


==List of Chief Justices==
==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%"
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="70%"
!#
!#
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|-
|-
!2
!2
| Sir [[Richard Couch]]
| Sir [[Richard Couch (judge)|Richard Couch]]
|1870&ndash;1875
|1870&ndash;1875
|-
|-
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| Sir [[Richard Garth]]
| Sir [[Richard Garth]]
|1875&ndash;1886
|1875&ndash;1886
|-
!—
|Sir [[Romesh Chandra Mitra]] ''(acting)''
|1886<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Supreme Court of Bangladesh |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov.bd/scdoc/#page/36 |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=www.supremecourt.gov.bd}}</ref>
|-
|-
!4
!4
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| Sir [[Francis William Maclean]]
| Sir [[Francis William Maclean]]
|1896&ndash;1909
|1896&ndash;1909
|-
!—
|Sir [[Chunder Madhub Ghose]] ''(acting)''
|1906<ref name=":0" />
|-
|-
!6
!6
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| Sir [[Lancelot Sanderson]]
| Sir [[Lancelot Sanderson]]
| 1915&ndash;1926
| 1915&ndash;1926
|-
!—
|Sir [[Ashutosh Mukherjee]] ''(acting)''
|1920, 1923<ref name=":0" />
|-
|-
!8
!8
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! colspan="3" |After Indian Independence
! colspan="3" |After Indian Independence
|-
|-
!1
!11
| Shri [[Phani Bhusan Chakravartti]]
| [[Phani Bhusan Chakravartti]]
|1952&ndash;1958
|1952&ndash;1958
|-
|-
!2
!12
| Shri [[Kulada Charan Das Gupta]]
| [[Kulada Charan Das Gupta]]
|1958&ndash;1959
|1958&ndash;1959
|-
|-
!3
!13
| Shri [[Surajit Chandra Lahiri]]
| [[Surajit Chandra Lahiri]]
|1959&ndash;1961
|1959&ndash;1961
|-
|-
!4
!14
| Shri [[Himansu Kumar Bose]]
| [[Himansu Kumar Bose]]
|1961&ndash;1966
|1961&ndash;1966
|-
|-
!5
!15
|[[Deep Narayan Sinha]]
| [[Deep Narayan Sinha]]
|1966&ndash;1970
|1966&ndash;1970
|-
|-
!6
!16
| Shri [[Prasanta Bihari Mukharji]]
| [[Prasanta Bihari Mukharji]]
|1970&ndash;1972
|1970&ndash;1972
|-
|-
!7
!17
| Shri [[Sankar Prasad Mitra]]
| [[Sankar Prasad Mitra]]
|1972&ndash;1979
|1972&ndash;1979
|-
|-
!8
!18
| Shri [[Amarendra Nath Sen]]
| [[Amarendra Nath Sen]]
|1979&ndash;1981
|1979&ndash;1981
|-
|-
!9
!19
| Shri [[Sambhu Chandra Ghose]]
| [[Sambhu Chandra Ghose]]
|1981&ndash;1983
|1981&ndash;1983
|-
|-
!10
!20
| Shri [[Samarendra Chandra Deb]]
| [[Samarendra Chandra Deb]]
|January 1983 &ndash; February 1983
|January 1983 &ndash; February 1983
|-
|-
!11
!21
| Shri Satish Chandra
| Satish Chandra
|1983&ndash;1986
|1983&ndash;1986
|-
|-
!12
!22
| Shri [[Anil Kumar Sen]]
| [[Anil Kumar Sen]]
|September 1986 &ndash; October 1986
|September 1986 &ndash; October 1986
|-
|-
!13
!23
| Shri [[Chittatosh Mookerjee]]
| [[Chittatosh Mookerjee]]
|1 November 1986 &ndash; 1 November 1987
|1 November 1986 &ndash; 1 November 1987
|-
|-
!14
!24
| Shri [[Debi Singh Tewatia]]
| [[Debi Singh Tewatia]]
|1 November 1987 &ndash; 1988
|1 November 1987 &ndash; 1988
|-
|-
!15
!25
| Shri [[Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai]]
| [[Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai]]
|1988&ndash;1991
|1988&ndash;1991
|-
|-
!16
!26
| Shri Nagendra Prasad Singh
| Nagendra Prasad Singh
|4 February 1992 &ndash; 14 June 1992
|4 February 1992 &ndash; 14 June 1992
|-
|-
!17
!27
| Shri [[Anandamoy Bhattacharjee]]
| [[Anandamoy Bhattacharjee]]
|1992&ndash;1994
|1992&ndash;1994
|-
|-
!18
!28
| Shri [[Krishna Chandra Agarwal]]
| [[Krishna Chandra Agarwal]]
|1994&ndash;1996
|1994&ndash;1996
|-
|-
!19
!29
|[[V. N. Khare]]
| [[V. N. Khare]]
|2 February 1996 &ndash; 20 March 1997
|2 February 1996 &ndash; 20 March 1997
|-
|-
!20
!30
|Shri [[Prabha Shankar Mishra]]
| [[Prabha Shankar Mishra]]
|1997&ndash;1998
|1997&ndash;1998
|-
|-
!21
!31
|Shri [[Ashok Kumar Mathur]]
| [[Ashok Kumar Mathur]]
|22 December 1999 &ndash; 6 June 2004
|22 December 1999 &ndash; 6 June 2004
|-
|-
!22
!32
|Shri [[V. S. Sirpurkar]]
| [[V. S. Sirpurkar]]
|20 March 2005 &ndash; 11 January 2007
|20 March 2005 &ndash; 11 January 2007
|-
|-
!23
!33
|Shri [[Surinder Singh Nijjar]]
| [[Surinder Singh Nijjar]]
|8 March 2007 &ndash; 16 November 2009
|8 March 2007 &ndash; 16 November 2009
|-
|-
!24
!34
|Shri [[Mohit Shantilal Shah]]
| [[Mohit Shantilal Shah]]
|24 December 2009 &ndash; 25 June 2010
|24 December 2009 &ndash; 25 June 2010
|-
|-
!25
!35
|Shri [[Jai Narayan Patel]]
| [[Jai Narayan Patel]]
|2010 &ndash; 4 October 2012
|2010 &ndash; 4 October 2012
|-
|-
!-
!36
|Shri [[Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta]] <small>(acting)</small>
| [[Arun Kumar Mishra]]
|5 October 2012 &ndash; 30 October 2012
|-
!26
|Shri [[Arun Kumar Mishra]]
|14 December 2012 &ndash; 6 July 2014
|14 December 2012 &ndash; 6 July 2014
|-
|-
!27
!37
|Shri [[Manjula Chellur]]
| [[Manjula Chellur]]
|5 August 2014 &ndash; 21 August 2016
|5 August 2014 &ndash; 21 August 2016
|-
|-
!-
!38
|Shri [[Girish Chandra Gupta]]<small> (acting)</small>
| [[Girish Chandra Gupta]]
|22 August 2016 &ndash; 20 September 2016
|21 September 2016 &ndash; 30 November 2016
|-
|-
!28
!39
|Shri [[Girish Chandra Gupta]]
| [[Jyotirmay Bhattacharya]]
|21 September 2016 &ndash; 30 November 2016
|1 May 2018 &ndash; 24 September 2018
|-
!40
| [[Debasish Kar Gupta]]
|30 October 2018 – 31 December 2018
|-
!41
| [[T. B. Radhakrishnan|Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan]]
|4 April 2019 — 28 April 2021
|-
!42
| [[Prakash Shrivastava]]
|11 October 2021 — 30 March 2023
|-
!43
| [[T. S. Sivagnanam]]
|11 May 2023 — 15 September 2025
|-
!44
| [[Sujoy Paul]]
| 16 January 2026 – ''Incumbent''
|}
 
== Judges elevated as Chief Justice ==
This sections contains list of only those judges elevated as chief justices whose parent high court is Calcutta. This includes those judges who, at the time of appointment as chief justice, may not be serving in Calcutta High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of appointment as chief justice were serving in Calcutta High Court but does not have Calcutta as their Parent High Court.{{Col-begin}}{{Col-2}}
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* {{Note label|‡|‡|‡}}Elevated to [[Supreme Court of India]]
*{{Note label|RES|RES|RES}} Resigned
* {{Note label|†|†|†}}Died in office{{Note label}}{{Col-end}}{{Static-row-numbers}}
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{| class="wikitable sortable defaultcenter static-row-numbers static-row-header" style="font-size: 90%"
! rowspan="2" |Name
! rowspan="2" |Image
! rowspan="2" |Appointed as CJ in HC of
! colspan="2" |Date of appointment
! rowspan="2" |Date of retirement{{Efn|this includes date of resignation, death and elevation to supreme court|name=date}}
! colspan="2" |Tenure
! rowspan="2" |Ref..
|-
!As Judge
!As Chief Justice
!As Chief Justice
!As Judge{{Efn|also includes tenure as Chief Justice|name=tenure}}
|-
|[[Walter Morgan (judge)|Walter Morgan]]
|
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]], ''transferred to'' [[Madras High Court|Madras]]
|{{dts|1862|7|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1866|3|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1879|2|7|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1866|3|17|1879|2|7|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1862|7|1|1879|2|7|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the High Court at Allahabad during the Chief Justice |url=https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/event/History_of_the_High_Court_AHenry.html#:~:text=Sir%20Walter%20Morgan%20was%20born,retiring%20from%20Madras%20in%201879. |access-date=2025-12-25 |website=www.allahabadhighcourt.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[Lawrence Hugh Jenkins]]
|[[File:Lawrence_Hugh_Jenkins.png|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Bombay High Court|Bombay]], ''transferred to'' Calcutta
|{{dts|1896|4|24|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1899|4|20|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1915|11|13|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1899|4|20|1915|11|13|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1896|4|24|1915|11|13|duration=on}}
|<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Page no.68 - 69 |url=https://www.wbja.nic.in/wbja_adm/files/The%20High%20Court%20at%20Calcutta%20150%20Years%20-%20An%20Overview.pdf}}</ref>
|-
|[[John Stanley (judge)|John Stanley]]
|[[File:Chief_Justice_Sir_John_Stanley.png|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]]
|{{dts|1898|||format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1901|8|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1911|4|21|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1901|8|17|1911|4|21|duration=on}}
|
|<ref>{{Cite news |title=Page 4950 {{!}} Issue 27338, 26 July 1901 {{!}} London Gaze... |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27338/page/4950 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241216045728/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27338/page/4950 |archive-date=2024-12-16 |access-date=2025-12-25 |work=The Gazette |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Some English Judges whom I Admired |url=https://allahabadhighcourt.in/event/SomeEngJIAdmiredSPSinha.pdf}}</ref>
|-
|[[George Claus Rankin]]
|[[File:Sir_George_Claus_Rankin.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|Calcutta
|{{dts|1918|||format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1926|||format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1934|||format=dmy}}
|
|
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|[[Sarat Kumar Ghosh]]
|[[File:Sarath Ghosh in Chicago.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Jammu & Kashmir High Court|Jammu & Kashmir]], ''transferred to'' [[Rajasthan High Court|Rajasthan]]{{Efn|Then known as High Court of princely state of Jaipur}}
|{{dts|1929|9||format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1946|3|29|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1949|3|31|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|RES|RES|RES}}
|{{ayd|1946|3|29|1949|3|31|duration=on}}
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929. |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/14585/page/1084}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Former Chairmen of RPSC |url=https://rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in/chairmen}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ronald Francis Lodge]]
|
|[[Gauhati High Court|Gauhati]]
|{{dts|1941|||format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1948|4|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1949|4|7|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1948|4|5|1949|4|7|duration=on}}
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|
|-
|[[Sudhi Ranjan Das]]
|'''[[File:Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]'''
|[[Punjab and Haryana High Court|Punjab & Haryana]]
|{{Dts|1942|12|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1949|1|19|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1950|1|20|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}{{Efn|Then [[Federal Court of India]]}}
|{{ayd|1949|1|19|1950|1|20|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1942|12|1|1950|1|19|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Phani Bhusan Chakravartti]]
|[[File:Phani_Bhusan_Chakravartti.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|Calcutta
|{{dts|1945|4||format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1952|6|13|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1958|10|11|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1952|6|13|1958|10|11|duration=on}}
|
| rowspan="2" |<ref name=":3" />
|-
|[[Kulada Charan Das Gupta]]
|[[File:Kulada_Charan_Das_Gupta.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1948|6||format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1958|10|12|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1959|8|17|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|1958|10|12|1959|8|17|duration=on}}
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|-
|[[Surajit Chandra Lahiri]]
|[[File:Surojit_Chandra_Lahiri_CU.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|Calcutta
| rowspan="2" |{{Dts|1949|1|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1959|8|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1961|6|10|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1959|8|17|1961|6|10|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1949|1|3|1961|6|10|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of S. C. Lahiri as Chief Justice |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/appointment-shri-justice-surajit-chandra-lahiri-judge-calcutta-high-court-be-chief-justice}}</ref>
|-
|[[Prasanta Bihari Mukharji]]
|
|Calcutta
|{{dts|1970|5|20|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1972|7|30|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1970|5|20|1972|7|30|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1949|1|3|1972|7|30|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Allegations against P. B. Mukharji |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/allegations-against-shri-justice-pb-mukharji-judge-calcutta-high-court}}</ref>
|-
|Subodh Ranjan Das Gupta
|
|[[Karnataka High Court|Karnataka]]
|{{Dts|1949|6|13|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1957|7|25|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1961|8|13|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1957|7|25|1961|8|13|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1949|6|13|1961|8|13|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of S. R. Das Gupta as Chief Justice |url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/HOME%20AFFAIRS/1957/HOM-1957-07-15-2183.pdf}}</ref>
|-
|[[Himansu Kumar Bose]]
|[[File:Himansu_Kumar_Bose.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1949|12|8|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1961|6|10|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1966|3|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1961|6|10|1966|3|1|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1949|12|8|1966|3|1|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of H. K. Bose as Chief Justice |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/appointment-shri-justice-hk-bose-judge-calcutta-high-court-be-chief-justice-high-court}}</ref>
|-
|[[Deep Narayan Sinha]]
|
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1950|7|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1966|3|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1970|1|14|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1966|3|1|1970|1|14|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1950|7|3|1970|1|14|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of D. N. Sinha as Permanent Chief Justice |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/appointment-shri-justice-dn-sinha-permanent-chief-justice-calcutta-high-court-vice-shri}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sankar Prasad Mitra]]
|
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1957|12|23|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1972|7|30|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1979|12|25|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1972|7|30|1979|12|25|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1957|12|23|1979|12|25|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of S. P. Mitra |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/appointment-sarvashri-ray-and-sp-mitra-additional-judges-calcutta-high-court-be-permanent}}</ref>
|-
|[[Amarendra Nath Sen]]
|
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1965|11|15|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1979|12|26|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1981|1|27|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|1979|12|26|1981|1|27|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1965|11|15|1981|1|27|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Sambhu Chandra Ghose]]
|
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1966|7|25|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1981|1|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1982|12|31|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1981|1|28|1982|12|31|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1966|7|25|1982|12|31|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of S. C. Ghose |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/proposals-appointment-shri-justice-amiya-nimai-chakrabarti-and-shri-justice-shambhu}}</ref>
|-
|[[Samarendra Chandra Deb]]
|
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1968|2|27|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1983|1|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1983|2|28|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1983|1|1|1983|2|28|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1968|2|27|1983|2|28|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of S. C. Deb as judge |url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/HOME%20AFFAIR/1968-JAN-JUNE-HOME-AFFAIRS/PDF/HOM-1968-02-21_050.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of S. C. Deb as CJ |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/searchtext=Calcutta%20Chief%20Justice/title=Calcutta_High_Court_Chief_Justice_appointment/nid=2920253}}</ref>
|-
|Pradyot Kumar Banerjee
|
|[[Rajasthan High Court|Rajasthan]]
|{{Dts|1968|7|31|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1983|10|23|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1985|9|30|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1983|10|23|1985|9|30|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1968|7|31|1985|9|30|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of P. K. Banerjee as judge |url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/HOME%20AFFAIR/1968-JULY-DEC-HOME-AFFAAIRS/PDF/HOM-1968-07-28_020.pdf}}</ref>
|-
|[[Anil Kumar Sen]]
|
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1968|11|8|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1986|9|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1986|10|31|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1986|9|1|1986|10|31|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1968|11|8|1986|10|31|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of A. K. Sen as judge |url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/HOME%20AFFAIR/1968-JULY-DEC-HOME-AFFAAIRS/PDF/HOM-1968-09-24_068.pdf}}</ref>
|-
|[[Chittatosh Mookerjee]]
|
|Calcutta, ''transferred to'' [[Bombay High Court|Bombay]]
|{{Dts|1969|4|2|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1986|11|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1991|1|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1986|11|1|1991|1|1|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1969|4|2|1991|1|1|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official Website of High Court of Bombay |url=https://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/cjshow.php?bhcpar=amdldGlkPTI0JnBhZ2Vubz0x |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251006131023/https://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/cjshow.php?bhcpar=amdldGlkPTI0JnBhZ2Vubz0x |archive-date=2025-10-06 |access-date=2025-12-24 |website=bombayhighcourt.nic.in |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Dipak Kumar Sen]]
|
|[[Patna High Court|Patna]]
|{{Dts|1973|3|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1988|5|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1989|5|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1988|5|1|1989|5|1|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1973|3|5|1989|5|1|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJ22AAAAIAAJ&q=Dipak+Kumar+Sen |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |date=1988 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|Rabindranath Pyne
|
|[[Delhi High Court|Delhi]]
|{{Dts|1974|3|6|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1988|5|20|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1990|10|8|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1988|5|20|1990|10|8|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1974|3|6|1990|10|8|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Justice Rabindranath Pyne {{!}} Welcome To Delhi High Court |url=https://www.delhihighcourt.nic.in/web/Judges/justice-rabindranath-pyne |access-date=2026-01-04 |website=www.delhihighcourt.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|Bimal Chandra Basak
|
|[[Patna High Court|Patna]]
|{{Dts|1974|6|10|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1991|3|18|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1994|1|21|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1991|3|18|1994|1|21|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1974|6|10|1994|1|21|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJ22AAAAIAAJ&q=Bimal+Chandra+Basak |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |date=1988 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ganendra Narayan Ray]]
|
|[[Gujarat High Court|Gujarat]]
|{{Dts|1976|12|23|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1990|12|2|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1991|10|6|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|1990|12|2|1991|10|6|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1976|12|23|1991|10|6|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Manoj Kumar Mukherjee]]
|
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]], ''transferred to'' [[Bombay High Court|Bombay]]
|{{Dts|1977|6|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1991|11|12|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1993|12|14|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|1991|11|12|1993|12|14|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1977|6|17|1993|12|13|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Mukul Gopal Mukherjee]]
|
|[[Rajasthan High Court|Rajasthan]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Dts|1984|1|9|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1996|9|19|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1997|12|24|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1996|9|19|1997|12|24|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1984|1|9|1997|12|24|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJ22AAAAIAAJ&q=mukul+gopal+mukherjee |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |date=1988 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Umesh Chandra Banerjee]]
|[[File:Umesh Chandra Banerjee, 2006 (cropped).jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Andhra Pradesh High Court|Andhra Pradesh]]
|{{dts|1998|2|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1998|12|8|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|1998|2|1|1998|12|8|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1984|1|9|1998|12|8|duration=on}}
|
|-
|Nirendra Krishna Mitra
|
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]]
|{{Dts|1985|12|20|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1999|2|12|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2000|4|17|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1999|2|12|2000|4|17|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1985|12|20|2000|4|17|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJ22AAAAIAAJ&q=N.+K.+Mitra |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |date=1988 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Shyamal Kumar Sen]]
|[[File:Shyamal_Kumar_Sen_-_Kolkata_2012-10-03_0511.JPG|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]]
|{{Dts|1986|1|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2000|7|18|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2002|11|24|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2000|7|18|2002|11|24|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1986|1|17|2002|11|24|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of S. K. Sen (pg. no. 97) |url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/archives/judges-appointed-calcutta-high-court}}</ref>
|-
|[[Tarun Chatterjee]]
|
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]]
| rowspan="3" |{{Dts|1990|8|6|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2003|1|31|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2004|8|26|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2003|1|31|2004|8|26|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1990|8|6|2004|8|26|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Ajoy Nath Ray]]
|
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]], ''transferred to'' [[Sikkim High Court|Sikkim]]
|{{dts|2005|1|11|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2008|10|30|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2005|1|11|2008|10|30|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1990|8|6|2008|10|30|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Altamas Kabir]]
|[[File:Justice Altamas Kabir.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Jharkhand High Court|Jharkhand]]
|{{dts|2005|3|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2005|9|8|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2005|3|1|2005|9|8|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1990|8|6|2005|9|8|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Asok Kumar Ganguly]]
|[[File:Asok Kumar Ganguly - Kolkata 2015-03-21 6970.JPG|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Orissa High Court|Orissa]], ''transferred to'' [[Madras High Court|Madras]]
|{{Dts|1994|1|10|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2007|3|2|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2008|12|15|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2007|3|2|2008|12|15|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1994|1|10|2008|12|16|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Barin Ghosh (judge)|Barin Ghosh]]
|
|[[Jammu & Kashmir High Court|Jammu & Kashmir]], ''transferred to'' [[Sikkim High Court|Sikkim]] ''then to'' [[Uttarakhand High Court|Uttarakhand]]
|{{Dts|1995|7|14|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2009|1|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2014|6|4|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2009|1|3|2014|6|4|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1995|7|14|2014|6|4|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Bhaskar Bhattacharya]]
|
|[[Gujarat High Court|Gujarat]]
| rowspan="3" |{{Dts|1997|7|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2012|7|21|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2014|9|28|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2012|7|21|2014|9|28|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1997|7|17|2014|9|28|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Pinaki Chandra Ghose]]
|[[File:Pinaki Chandra Ghosh.png|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Andhra Pradesh High Court|Andhra Pradesh]]
|{{dts|2012|12|12|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2013|3|7|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2012|12|12|2013|3|7|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1997|7|17|2013|3|7|duration=on}}
|
|-
|-
!-
|[[Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta]]
|Shri [[Nishita Nirmal Mhatre]]<small> (acting)</small>
|
|1 December 2016 &ndash; 20 September 2017
|[[Andhra Pradesh High Court|Andhra Pradesh]]
|{{dts|2013|5|21|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2015|5|6|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2013|5|21|2015|5|6|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1997|7|17|2015|5|6|duration=on}}
|
|-
|-
!-
|[[Subhro Kamal Mukherjee]]
|Shri [[Rakesh Tiwari]]<small> (acting)</small>
|
|20 September 2017 &ndash; 24 October 2017
|[[Karnataka High Court|Karnataka]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Dts|2000|9|15|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2016|2|23|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2017|10|9|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2016|2|23|2017|10|9|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2000|9|15|2017|10|9|duration=on}}
|
|-
|-
!-
|[[Girish Chandra Gupta]]
|Shri [[Jyotirmay Bhattacharya]] <small>(acting)</small>
|
|25 October 2017 &ndash; 30 April 2018
|Calcutta
|{{dts|2016|9|21|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2016|11|30|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2016|9|21|2016|11|30|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2000|9|15|2016|11|30|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Indira Banerjee]]
|[[File:Justice Indira Banerjee.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Madras High Court|Madras]]
|{{Dts|2002|2|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2017|4|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|8|6|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2017|4|5|2018|8|6|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2002|2|5|2018|8|6|duration=on}}
|
|-
|-
!29
|[[Jyotirmay Bhattacharya]]
|[[Jyotirmay Bhattacharya]]
|1 May 2018 &ndash; 24 September 2018
|
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|2003|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|5|1|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|9|24|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2018|5|1|2018|9|24|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2003|12|3|2018|9|24|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Aniruddha Bose]]
|[[File:Justice_Aniruddha_Bose.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Jharkhand High Court|Jharkhand]]
|{{Dts|2004|1|19|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|8|11|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2019|5|23|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2018|8|11|2019|5|23|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2004|1|19|2019|5|23|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Debasish Kar Gupta]]
|
|Calcutta
| rowspan="4" |{{dts|2006|6|22|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|10|30|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|12|31|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2018|10|30|2018|12|31|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2006|6|22|2018|12|31|duration=on}}
|'''<ref name=":233">{{Cite web |title=Former Chief Justices of Calcutta High Court |url=https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/Former-Chief-Justices}}</ref>'''
|-
|[[Biswanath Somadder]]
|[[File:Pic_of_justice_Biswanath_Somadder.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|[[Meghalaya High Court|Meghalaya]], ''transferred to'' [[Sikkim High Court|Sikkim]]
|{{dts|2020|4|27|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|12|14|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2020|4|27|2025|12|14|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2006|6|22|2025|12|14|duration=on}}
| rowspan="6" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Court |first=Calcutta High |title=Calcutta High Court - Judges |url=https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/Former-Judges |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241216015842/https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/Former-Judges |archive-date=2024-12-16 |access-date=2025-12-25 |website=www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|-
!-
|[[Dipankar Datta]]
|Shri [[Debasish Kar Gupta]] <small>(acting)</small>
|[[File:Justice_Dipankar_Datta.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|25 September 2018 &ndash; 29 October 2018
|[[Bombay High Court|Bombay]]
|{{dts|2020|4|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2022|12|11|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2020|4|28|2022|12|11|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2006|6|22|2022|12|11}}
|-
|-
!30
|[[Sanjib Banerjee]]
|Shri [[Debasish Kar Gupta]]
|
|30 October 2018 – 31 December 2018
|[[Madras High Court|Madras]], ''transferred to'' [[Meghalaya High Court|Meghalaya]]
|{{dts|2021|1|4|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2023|11|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2021|11|24|2023|11|1|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2006|6|22|2023|11|1|duration=on}}
|-
|-
!-
|[[Indra Prasanna Mukerji]]
|Shri [[Biswanath Somadder]] <small>(acting)</small>
|
|1 January 2019 — 3 April 2019
|[[Meghalaya High Court|Meghalaya]]
|{{dts|2009|5|18|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2024|10|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|9|5|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2024|10|3|2025|9|5|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2009|5|18|2025|9|5|duration=on}}
|-
|-
!31
|[[Harish Tandon]]
|Shri [[Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan]]
|[[File:Justice_Harish_Tandon.jpg|90x90px]]
|4 April 2019 — 28 April 2021
|[[Orissa High Court|Orissa]]
|{{dts|2010|4|13|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|3|26|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="2" |''Incumbent''
|{{ayd|2025|3|26||||duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2010|4|13||||duration=on}}
|-
|-
!-
|[[Soumen Sen]]
|Shri [[Rajesh Bindal]] <small>(acting)</small>
|
|29 April 2021 — Incumbent
|[[Meghalaya High Court|Meghalaya]], ''transferred to'' [[Kerala High Court|Kerala]]
|{{dts|2011|4|13|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|10|8|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2025|10|8||||duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2011|4|13||||duration=on}}
|}
|}


== Judges ==
=== Judges appointed as Acting Chief Justice ===
The court has a Sanctioned strength of '''72 (Permanent:54, Additional:18)''' judges.
{| class="wikitable sortable defaultcenter static-row-numbers static-row-header" style="font-size: 90%"
 
!Name
'''Judges Elevated to the Supreme Court of India-'''
!Appointed as ACJ in HC of
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Date of appointment as Judge
!Sr. No
!Period as Acting Chief Justice
!Name of the Judge, Justice
!Date of retirement{{Efn|this includes date of resignation, death and elevation to supreme court|name=date}}
!Date of Elevation
!Tenure as ACJ
!Date of Retirement
!Tenure as Judge
!Parent High Court
!Remarks
!Ref..
|-
|[[Prasanta Bihari Mukharji|P. B. Mukharji]]
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1949|1|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1970|1|14|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1970|5|19|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1972|7|30|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1970|1|14|1970|5|19|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1949|1|3|1972|7|30|duration=on}}
|Became permanent
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Appointment of P. B. Mukharji as Acting CJ |url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/HOME%20AFFAIR/1970-JAN-DEC-HOME-AFFAIRS/PDF/HOM-1970-01-14_013.pdf}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sabyasachi Mukharji|S. Mukharji]]
|Calcutta
| rowspan="2" |{{Dts|1968|7|31|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1983|3|1|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1983|3|14|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1983|3|14|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|1983|3|1|1983|3|14|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1968|7|31|1983|3|14|duration=on}}
|Elevated to [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Justice Sabyasachi Mukherjee {{!}} Supreme Court of India {{!}} India |url=https://www.sci.gov.in/judge/justice-sabyasachi-mukherjee/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128074939/https://www.sci.gov.in/judge/justice-sabyasachi-mukherjee/ |archive-date=2024-01-28 |access-date=2025-09-30 |website=www.sci.gov.in |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|Tarun Kumar Basu
|Calcutta
|{{dts|1983|3|15|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1983|11|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1986|2|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1983|3|15|1983|11|28|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1968|7|31|1986|2|1|duration=on}}
| --
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=t5y2AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=T.K.+Basu |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |date=1979 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Calcutta Chemical Co. Ltd. v. Dhiresh Chandra Roy., Calcutta High Court, Judgment, Law, casemine.com |url=https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095f76e4b01497112ca4fb |access-date=2026-03-30 |website=www.casemine.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|Rabindranath Pyne
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1974|3|6|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1988|5|3|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1988|5|19|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1990|10|8|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1988|5|3|1988|5|19|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1974|3|6|1990|10|8|duration=on}}
|Elevated as CJ of [[Delhi High Court|Delhi]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judgement mentioning R. N. Pyne as Acting CJ |url=https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/1173427/?big=3&formInput=r.+n.+pyne++++++doctypes%3A+kolkata+year%3A+1988}}</ref>
|-
|Manashnath Roy
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1974|6|10|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1988|5|20|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1988|11|13|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1990|11|11|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1988|5|20|1988|11|13|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1974|6|10|1990|11|11|duration=on}}
| --
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?redir_esc=y&id=nJ22AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Manashnath+roy |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |date=1988 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|Samir Kumar Mookherjee
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|1984|1|9|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1998|7|6|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1999|4|29|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1999|4|29|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1998|7|6|1999|4|29|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1984|1|9|1999|4|29|duration=on}}
|Retired as ACJ
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Your Honour, send 'em to this school. They will at least learn to feel shame |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/your-honour-send-em-to-this-school-they-will-at-least-learn-to-feel-shame/cid/1479824#:~:text=But%20the%20distance%20is%20too,repeated%20advice%20to%20the%20contrary. |access-date=30 March 2026 |website=Telegraph India}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?redir_esc=y&id=nJ22AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Mookherjee |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |date=1988 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |Susanta Chatterjee
| rowspan="2" |[[Orissa High Court|Orissa]]
| rowspan="5" |{{Dts|1986|1|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1996|2|16|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1996|8|1|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="2" |{{dts|1999|4|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1996|2|16|1996|8|1|duration=on}}
| rowspan="2" |{{ayd|1986|1|17|1999|4|1|duration=on}}
| --
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Read more on Harekrushna Samal and Others Vs. Kashi Mallik and Others on 30 July, 1996 - Legitquest. Find Court Judgments and Legal Cases in India |url=https://www.legitquest.com/case/harekrushna-samal-and-others-v-kashi-mallik-and-others/1631D2 |access-date=2026-04-10 |website=www.legitquest.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|1999|1|28|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1999|4|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1999|1|28|1999|4|1|duration=on}}
|Retired as ACJ
|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Court |first=India Supreme |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?redir_esc=y&id=u4UmB-G1kNsC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=susanta |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... |last2=Justice |first2=India Department of |date=1999 |publisher=Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India. |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Shyamal Kumar Sen|S. K. Sen]]
| rowspan="2" |Calcutta
|{{dts|1999|4|29|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1999|5|17|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="3" |{{dts|2002|11|24|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1999|4|29|1999|5|17|duration=on}}
| rowspan="3" |{{ayd|1986|1|17|2002|11|24|duration=on}}
|Appointed as Acting [[List of governors of West Bengal|Governor of West Bengal]]
| rowspan="2" |<ref name=":58">{{Cite web |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice Shyamal Kumar Sen |url=https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/Judges/ex-judges/shyamalkumarsen.htm |access-date=2025-09-29 |website=www.allahabadhighcourt.in}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|1999|12|5|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1999|12|21|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1999|12|5|1999|12|21|duration=on}}
| --
|-
|[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]]
|{{dts|2000|5|8|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2000|7|17|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2000|5|8|2000|7|17|duration=on}}
|Became permanent
|
|-
|[[Ajoy Nath Ray|A. N. Ray]]
|Calcutta
| rowspan="2" |{{Dts|1990|8|6|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2004|6|7|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2005|1|10|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2008|10|30|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2004|6|7|2005|1|10|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1990|8|6|2008|10|30|duration=on}}
|Elevated as CJ of [[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile : Justice Ajoy Kumar Ray |url=https://hcs.gov.in/hcs/node/2051}}</ref>
|-
|[[Altamas Kabir|A. Kabir]]
|Calcutta
|{{dts|2005|1|11|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2005|2|28|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2005|9|8|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2005|1|11|2005|2|28|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1990|8|6|2005|9|8|duration=on}}
|Elevated as CJ of [[Jharkhand High Court|Jharkhand]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=High Court of Jharkhand, India |url=https://jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in/judges_summary.php?jpi=MzM= |access-date=2025-10-09 |website=jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Asok Kumar Ganguly|A. K. Ganguly]]
|Calcutta
| rowspan="2" |{{Dts|1994|1|10|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2005|3|1|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2005|3|19|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="2" |{{dts|2008|12|15|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2005|3|1|2005|3|19|duration=on}}
| rowspan="2" |{{ayd|1994|1|10|2008|12|16|duration=on}}
| --
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supreme Court annual report 2008-09 |url=https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2024/07/annualreport2008-09.pdf |access-date=2025-10-09 |website=sci.gov.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[Orissa High Court|Orissa]]
|{{dts|2007|1|28|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2007|3|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2007|1|28|2007|3|1|duration=on}}
|Became permanent
|-
| rowspan="2" |Malay Sengupta
| rowspan="2" |[[Sikkim High Court|Sikkim]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Dts|1995|9|27|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|1996|10|27|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1997|8|26|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="2" |{{dts|1998|11|9|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1996|10|27|1997|8|26|duration=on}}
| rowspan="2" |{{ayd|1995|9|27|1998|11|9|duration=on}}
| rowspan="4" | --
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile : Malay Sengupta |url=https://hcs.gov.in/hcs/node/2035}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|1997|9|27|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|1997|12|26|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|1997|9|27|1997|12|26|duration=on}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |Amitava Lala
| rowspan="3" |[[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad]]
| rowspan="3" |{{Dts|1997|5|12|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2010|2|8|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2010|6|25|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="3" |{{dts|2012|11|19|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2010|2|8|2010|6|25|duration=on}}
| rowspan="3" |{{ayd|1997|5|12|2012|11|19|duration=on}}
| rowspan="3" |<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Hon'ble Mr. Justice Amitava Lala (ACJ) |url=https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/service/judgeDetail.jsp?id=91 |access-date=2025-09-29 |website=www.allahabadhighcourt.in}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2011|7|31|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2011|8|4|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2011|7|31|2011|8|4|duration=on}}
|-
|{{dts|2012|8|8|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2012|11|19|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2012|8|8|2012|11|19|duration=on}}
|Retired as ACJ
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Bhaskar Bhattacharya|B. Bhattacharya]]
| rowspan="2" |Calcutta
| rowspan="5" |{{Dts|1997|7|17|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2007|1|12|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2007|3|6|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="3" |{{dts|2014|9|28|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2007|1|12|2007|3|6|duration=on}}
| rowspan="3" |{{ayd|1997|7|17|2014|9|28|duration=on}}
| rowspan="2" | --
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |date=2007-01-16 |title=Chief justice issues directives to end stalemate in lower court |url=https://www.oneindia.com/2007/01/15/chief-justice-issues-directives-to-end-stalemate-in-lower-court-1168927206.html |access-date=2026-02-17 |website= |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2009|11|17|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2009|12|23|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2009|11|17|2009|12|23|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bhaskar Bhattacharya News Photo Swearing-in-Ceremony: A... |url=https://timescontent.timesofindia.com/photo/news/Bhaskar-Bhattacharya/169429 |access-date=2026-02-17 |website=Times Of India |language=English}}</ref>
|-
|[[Gujarat High Court|Gujarat]]
|{{dts|2011|11|8|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2012|7|20|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2011|11|8|2012|7|20|duration=on}}
| rowspan="2" |Became permanent
|
|-
|[[Pinaki Chandra Ghose|P. C. Ghose]]
|[[Andhra Pradesh High Court|Andhra Pradesh]]
|{{dts|2012|6|25|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2012|12|11|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2013|3|7|format=dmy}}{{Ref label|‡|‡|‡}}
|{{ayd|2012|6|25|2012|12|11|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1997|7|17|2013|3|7|duration=on}}
|
|-
|[[Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta|K. J. Sengupta]]
|Calcutta
|{{dts|2012|10|5|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2012|10|30|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2015|5|6|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2012|10|5|2012|10|30|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|1997|7|17|2015|5|6|duration=on}}
|Transferred to [[Uttarakhand High Court|Uttarakhand]]
|<ref name=":18">{{Cite web |title=High Court of Andhra Pradesh |url=https://aphc.gov.in/formerjudges.php?type=former_cj |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250822151506/https://aphc.gov.in/formerjudges.php?type=former_cj |archive-date=2025-08-22 |access-date=2025-10-02 |website=aphc.gov.in |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|Pratap Kumar Ray
|Calcutta
| rowspan="4" |{{Dts|2000|9|15|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2012|10|31|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2012|12|14|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2013|1|8|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2012|10|31|2012|12|14|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2000|9|15|2013|1|8|duration=on}}
| rowspan="2" | --
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile : Pratap Kumar Ray |url=https://www.greentribunal.gov.in/justice-pratap-kumar-ray |access-date=16 January 2026 |website=[[National Green Tribunal]]}}</ref>
|-
|Ashim Kumar Banerjee
|Calcutta
|{{dts|2014|7|7|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2014|8|5|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2015|6|1|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2014|7|7|2014|8|5|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2000|9|15|2015|6|1|duration=on}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Court |first=Calcutta High |title=Calcutta High Court - Judges |url=https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/Former-Judges |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241216015842/https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/Former-Judges |archive-date=2024-12-16 |access-date=2026-04-09 |website=www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern Road Carriers Limited vs Jai Balaji Industries Limited on 16 July, 2014 |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/101970944/ |access-date=2026-03-03 |website=indiankanoon.org}}</ref>
|-
|[[Subhro Kamal Mukherjee|S. K. Mukherjee]]
|[[Karnataka High Court|Karnataka]]
|{{dts|2015|6|4|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2016|2|22|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2017|10|9|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2015|6|4|2016|2|22|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2000|9|15|2017|10|9|duration=on}}
|Became permanent
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Order of appointment of Justice S. K. Mukherjee as Acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court |url=https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=122731#:~:text=Justice%20Subhro%20Kamal%20Mukherjee%20Appointed,Justice%20of%20Karnataka%20High%20Court}}</ref>
|-
|[[Girish Chandra Gupta|G. C. Gupta]]
|Calcutta
|{{dts|2016|8|22|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2016|9|20|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2016|11|30|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2016|8|22|2016|9|20|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2000|9|15|2016|11|30|duration=on}}
| rowspan="3" |Became permanent
| rowspan="5" |'''<ref name=":233"/>'''
|-
|[[Jyotirmay Bhattacharya|J. M. Bhattacharya]]
|Calcutta
|{{Dts|2003|12|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2017|10|25|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2018|4|30|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|9|24|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2017|10|25|2018|4|30|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2003|12|3|2018|9|24|duration=on}}
|-
|[[Debasish Kar Gupta|D. K. Gupta]]
|Calcutta
| rowspan="2" |{{dts|2006|6|22|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|9|25|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2018|10|29|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2018|12|31|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2018|9|25|2018|10|29|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2006|6|22|2018|12|31|duration=on}}
|-
|-
!1
|[[Biswanath Somadder]]
|[[Indira Banerjee]]
|7 August 2018
|23 September 2022
|Calcutta
|Calcutta
|{{dts|2019|1|1|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2019|4|3|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|12|14|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2019|1|1|2019|4|3|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2006|6|22|2025|12|14|duration=on}}
| --
|-
|-
!2
|[[Soumen Sen]]
|[[Aniruddha Bose]]
|24 May 2019
|10 April 2024
|Calcutta
|Calcutta
|{{dts|2011|4|13|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|10|8|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2026|1|15|format=dmy}}
| rowspan="2" |''Incumbent''
|{{ayd|2025|9|16|2025|10|7|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2011|4|13||||duration=on}}
|Elevated as CJ of [[Meghalaya High Court|Meghalaya]]
|-
|[[Arindam Sinha]]
|[[Orissa High Court|Orissa]]
|{{dts|2013|10|30|format=dmy}}
|{{dts|2025|1|20|format=dmy}}''{{Spaced en dash space}}''{{dts|2025|3|25|format=dmy}}
|{{ayd|2025|1|20|2025|3|25|duration=on}}
|{{ayd|2013|10|30||||duration=on}}
| --
|
|}
|}
'''Judges Transferred/Elevated from the Calcutta High Court-'''
{{Notelist}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
 
!Sr. No.
== Judges elevated to Supreme Court ==
!Name of the Judge, Justice
This section includes the list of only those judges whose parent high court was Calcutta. This includes those judges who, at the time of elevation to [[Supreme Court of India]], may not be serving in Calcutta High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of elevation were serving in Calcutta High Court but does not have Calcutta as their Parent High Court.
!Recruitment
{{Legend|#EEFFE1"|Served as [[Chief Justice of India]]|border=2px solid #AAAAAA}}
!Date of Appointment
{{Col-begin}}{{Col-2}}
!Date of Retirement
;Key
!Remark
* {{Note label|RES|RES|RES}} Resigned
* {{Note label|†|†|†}}Died in office{{Note label}}{{Col-end}}
{| class="wikitable sortable defaultcenter static-row-header" style="font-size: 90%"
! rowspan="2" |#
! rowspan="2" |Name of the Judge
! rowspan="2" |Image
! colspan="2" |Date of Appointment
! rowspan="2" |Date of Retirement
! colspan="3" |Tenure
! rowspan="2" |Immediately preceding office
|-
|-
!In Parent High Court
!In Supreme Court
!In High Court(s)
!In Supreme Court
!Total tenure{{Efn|Includes both tenure as High Court Judge as well as Supreme Court Judge|name=total tenure}}
|- style="background:#EEFFE1" scope="row"
!1
!1
|[[Biswanath Somadder]]
|[[Bijan Kumar Mukherjea]]
|BAR
|[[File:Bijan Kumar Mukherjea, 4th Chief Justice of India.jpg|alt=|90x90px]]
|22 June 2006
|{{Dts|1936|7|8|format=dmy}}
|14 December 2025
|{{dts|1948|10|13|format=dmy}}{{efn|Elevated to the [[Federal Court of India]] on 13 October 1948, and became part of the [[Supreme Court of India]] after its establishment on 26 January 1950.}}
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|[[Dipankar Datta]]
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|[[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Calcutta High Court|12th CJ]] of Calcutta HC
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|Sudip Ahluwalia
|Ranadhir Singh Bachawat
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|[[Ruma Pal]]
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|[[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Allahabad High Court|38th CJ]] of [[Allahabad High Court|Allahabad HC]]
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|[[Altamas Kabir]]
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|[[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Jharkhand High Court|3rd CJ]] of [[Jharkhand High Court|Jharkhand HC]]
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|[[Asok Kumar Ganguly]]
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|[[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Madras High Court|34th CJ]] of [[Madras High Court|Madras HC]]
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|[[Pinaki Chandra Ghose]]
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|[[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Madras High Court|39th CJ]] of [[Madras High Court|Madras HC]]
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|[[Aniruddha Bose]]
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|[[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Jharkhand High Court|12th CJ]] of [[Jharkhand High Court|Jharkhand HC]]
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==Building==
==Building==
The neo-Gothic High Court building was constructed in 1872, ten years after the establishment of the court itself.
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>
The design, by then government architect Walter Granville, was loosely modelled on the 13th-century [[Cloth Hall, Ypres|Cloth Hall]] at [[Ypres]], [[Belgium]].<ref name="auto"/>
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>
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==
==Connectivity==
<gallery>
===Rails===
File:Calcutta High Court in the 1890s.JPG|Calcutta High Court in the 1890s
[[Eden Gardens railway station]] is the nearest railway station, which is 650 meters away from the court. [[Esplanade metro station]], the nearest rapid rail transit is 1.3&nbsp;km away.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
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 - 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==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{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==
==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Calcutta High Court}}
* [https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/ Official website]
* [https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/ Official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/ Former official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070306142046/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/ Former official website] (archived 6 March 2007)
* [http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/roct2003/30102003/r301020036.html Judge strength in High Courts increased]


{{High courts of India}}
{{High courts of India}}

Latest revision as of 12:00, 7 May 2026


Calcutta High Court
Calcutta High Court building
Established1 July 1862; 164 years ago (1862-07-01)
JurisdictionWest Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands
LocationPrincipal Seat: Kolkata, West Bengal
Circuit Benches: Jalpaiguri & Port Blair (A & N Islands)
Coordinates22°34′6″N 88°20′36″E / 22.56833°N 88.34333°E / 22.56833; 88.34333
Composition methodPresidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorized byConstitution of India
Judge term lengthTill 62 years of age
Number of positions72
Websitecalcuttahighcourt.gov.in
Chief Justice
CurrentlySujoy Paul
Since16 January 2026

Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India.[1] It is located at Esplanade Row West, Kolkata (also scribed as Calcutta), West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Gothic Revival building was completed in 1872, and designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville.[2]

Currently, the court has a sanctioned judge strength of 72.

History[edit | edit source]

Calcutta High Court in the 1860s
Calcutta High Court in the 1890s

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, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was brought into existence as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William by the Letters Patent dated 14 May 1862,[3] issued under the High Courts Act, 1861, which was preceded by the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William. The court was formally opened on 1 July 1862.

The building was designed by Walter Long Bozzi Granville, and loosely modelled on the Ypres Cloth Hall in Flanders, Belgium, with a similar long facade of serried Gothic pointed arches, and a tall central tower with corner spires.[4] It is constructed of red brick with stucco dressings above a vaulted cloister of Barakur sandstone. It has been described as the only significant secular Gothic building in the city, something of an aberration amid the neoclassical edifices of other government buildings, such as Granville's own earlier General Post Office building in Dalhousie Square.[2]

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.[5] The Bill called High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 19 July 2016[6] and is yet to be passed by both Houses of Parliament. Hence, the High Court still retains the old name.

Principal seat and benches[edit | edit source]

The seat of the Calcutta High Court is Kolkata, the 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 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, West Bengal with the jurisdiction area[7] within 5 districts- Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar.

Chief Justice and Judges[edit | edit source]

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

Sitting Judges of Calcutta High Court-

See also: List of sitting judges of High Courts of India § Calcutta High Court

Currently, Justice Sujoy Paul is the Chief Justice of the court. 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. Sir Romesh Chandra Mitra was the first officiating Indian Chief Justice and Phani Bhushan Chakravartti was the first permanent Indian Chief Justice of the court. The longest-serving Chief Justice was Justice Sankar Prasad Mitra.

List of Chief Justices[edit | edit source]

# Chief Justice Term
1 Sir Barnes Peacock 1862–1870
2 Sir Richard Couch 1870–1875
3 Sir Richard Garth 1875–1886
— Sir Romesh Chandra Mitra (acting) 1886[8]
4 Sir William Comer Petheram 1886–1896
5 Sir Francis William Maclean 1896–1909
— Sir Chunder Madhub Ghose (acting) 1906[8]
6 Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins 1909–1915
7 Sir Lancelot Sanderson 1915–1926
— Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (acting) 1920, 1923[8]
8 Sir George Claus Rankin 1926–1934
9 Sir Harold Derbyshire 1934–1946
10 Sir Arthur Trevor Harries 1946–1952
After Indian Independence
11 Phani Bhusan Chakravartti 1952–1958
12 Kulada Charan Das Gupta 1958–1959
13 Surajit Chandra Lahiri 1959–1961
14 Himansu Kumar Bose 1961–1966
15 Deep Narayan Sinha 1966–1970
16 Prasanta Bihari Mukharji 1970–1972
17 Sankar Prasad Mitra 1972–1979
18 Amarendra Nath Sen 1979–1981
19 Sambhu Chandra Ghose 1981–1983
20 Samarendra Chandra Deb January 1983 – February 1983
21 Satish Chandra 1983–1986
22 Anil Kumar Sen September 1986 – October 1986
23 Chittatosh Mookerjee 1 November 1986 – 1 November 1987
24 Debi Singh Tewatia 1 November 1987 – 1988
25 Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai 1988–1991
26 Nagendra Prasad Singh 4 February 1992 – 14 June 1992
27 Anandamoy Bhattacharjee 1992–1994
28 Krishna Chandra Agarwal 1994–1996
29 V. N. Khare 2 February 1996 – 20 March 1997
30 Prabha Shankar Mishra 1997–1998
31 Ashok Kumar Mathur 22 December 1999 – 6 June 2004
32 V. S. Sirpurkar 20 March 2005 – 11 January 2007
33 Surinder Singh Nijjar 8 March 2007 – 16 November 2009
34 Mohit Shantilal Shah 24 December 2009 – 25 June 2010
35 Jai Narayan Patel 2010 – 4 October 2012
36 Arun Kumar Mishra 14 December 2012 – 6 July 2014
37 Manjula Chellur 5 August 2014 – 21 August 2016
38 Girish Chandra Gupta 21 September 2016 – 30 November 2016
39 Jyotirmay Bhattacharya 1 May 2018 – 24 September 2018
40 Debasish Kar Gupta 30 October 2018 – 31 December 2018
41 Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan 4 April 2019 — 28 April 2021
42 Prakash Shrivastava 11 October 2021 — 30 March 2023
43 T. S. Sivagnanam 11 May 2023 — 15 September 2025
44 Sujoy Paul 16 January 2026 – Incumbent

Judges elevated as Chief Justice[edit | edit source]

This sections contains list of only those judges elevated as chief justices whose parent high court is Calcutta. This includes those judges who, at the time of appointment as chief justice, may not be serving in Calcutta High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of appointment as chief justice were serving in Calcutta High Court but does not have Calcutta as their Parent High Court.

Template:Static-row-numbers

Name Image Appointed as CJ in HC of Date of appointment Date of retirement[lower-alpha 1] Tenure Ref..
As Judge As Chief Justice As Chief Justice As Judge[lower-alpha 2]
Walter Morgan Allahabad, transferred to Madras 1 July 1862 17 March 1866 7 February 1879 12 years, 328 days 16 years, 222 days [9]
Lawrence Hugh Jenkins Bombay, transferred to Calcutta 24 April 1896 20 April 1899 13 November 1915 16 years, 208 days 19 years, 204 days [10]
John Stanley Allahabad 1898 17 August 1901 21 April 1911 9 years, 248 days [11][12]
George Claus Rankin Calcutta 1918 1926 1934 [10]
Sarat Kumar Ghosh Jammu & Kashmir, transferred to Rajasthan[lower-alpha 3] September 1929 29 March 1946 31 March 1949[RES] 3 years, 3 days [13][14]
Ronald Francis Lodge Gauhati 1941 5 April 1948 7 April 1949 1 year, 3 days
Sudhi Ranjan Das Punjab & Haryana 1 December 1942 19 January 1949 20 January 1950[‡][lower-alpha 4] 1 year, 2 days 7 years, 50 days
Phani Bhusan Chakravartti Calcutta April 1945 13 June 1952 11 October 1958 6 years, 121 days [10]
Kulada Charan Das Gupta Calcutta June 1948 12 October 1958 17 August 1959[‡] 310 days
Surajit Chandra Lahiri Calcutta 3 January 1949 17 August 1959 10 June 1961 1 year, 298 days 12 years, 159 days [15]
Prasanta Bihari Mukharji Calcutta 20 May 1970 30 July 1972 2 years, 72 days 23 years, 210 days [16]
Subodh Ranjan Das Gupta Karnataka 13 June 1949 25 July 1957 13 August 1961 4 years, 20 days 12 years, 62 days [17]
Himansu Kumar Bose Calcutta 8 December 1949 10 June 1961 1 March 1966 4 years, 265 days 16 years, 84 days [18]
Deep Narayan Sinha Calcutta 3 July 1950 1 March 1966 14 January 1970 3 years, 320 days 19 years, 196 days [19]
Sankar Prasad Mitra Calcutta 23 December 1957 30 July 1972 25 December 1979 7 years, 149 days 22 years, 3 days [20]
Amarendra Nath Sen Calcutta 15 November 1965 26 December 1979 27 January 1981[‡] 1 year, 33 days 15 years, 74 days
Sambhu Chandra Ghose Calcutta 25 July 1966 28 January 1981 31 December 1982 1 year, 338 days 16 years, 160 days [21]
Samarendra Chandra Deb Calcutta 27 February 1968 1 January 1983 28 February 1983 59 days 15 years, 2 days [22][23]
Pradyot Kumar Banerjee Rajasthan 31 July 1968 23 October 1983 30 September 1985 1 year, 343 days 17 years, 62 days [24]
Anil Kumar Sen Calcutta 8 November 1968 1 September 1986 31 October 1986 61 days 17 years, 358 days [25]
Chittatosh Mookerjee Calcutta, transferred to Bombay 2 April 1969 1 November 1986 1 January 1991 4 years, 62 days 21 years, 275 days [26]
Dipak Kumar Sen Patna 5 March 1973 1 May 1988 1 May 1989 1 year, 1 day 16 years, 58 days [27]
Rabindranath Pyne Delhi 6 March 1974 20 May 1988 8 October 1990 2 years, 142 days 16 years, 217 days [28]
Bimal Chandra Basak Patna 10 June 1974 18 March 1991 21 January 1994 2 years, 310 days 19 years, 226 days [29]
Ganendra Narayan Ray Gujarat 23 December 1976 2 December 1990 6 October 1991[‡] 309 days 14 years, 288 days
Manoj Kumar Mukherjee Allahabad, transferred to Bombay 17 June 1977 12 November 1991 14 December 1993[‡] 2 years, 33 days 16 years, 180 days
Mukul Gopal Mukherjee Rajasthan 9 January 1984 19 September 1996 24 December 1997 1 year, 97 days 13 years, 350 days [30]
Umesh Chandra Banerjee Andhra Pradesh 1 February 1998 8 December 1998[‡] 311 days 14 years, 334 days
Nirendra Krishna Mitra Allahabad 20 December 1985 12 February 1999 17 April 2000 1 year, 66 days 14 years, 120 days [31]
Shyamal Kumar Sen Allahabad 17 January 1986 18 July 2000 24 November 2002 2 years, 130 days 16 years, 312 days [32]
Tarun Chatterjee Allahabad 6 August 1990 31 January 2003 26 August 2004[‡] 1 year, 209 days 14 years, 21 days
Ajoy Nath Ray Allahabad, transferred to Sikkim 11 January 2005 30 October 2008 3 years, 294 days 18 years, 86 days
Altamas Kabir Jharkhand 1 March 2005 8 September 2005[‡] 192 days 15 years, 34 days
Asok Kumar Ganguly Orissa, transferred to Madras 10 January 1994 2 March 2007 15 December 2008[‡] 1 year, 289 days 14 years, 342 days
Barin Ghosh Jammu & Kashmir, transferred to Sikkim then to Uttarakhand 14 July 1995 3 January 2009 4 June 2014 5 years, 153 days 18 years, 326 days
Bhaskar Bhattacharya Gujarat 17 July 1997 21 July 2012 28 September 2014 2 years, 70 days 17 years, 74 days
Pinaki Chandra Ghose Andhra Pradesh 12 December 2012 7 March 2013[‡] 86 days 15 years, 234 days
Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta Andhra Pradesh 21 May 2013 6 May 2015 1 year, 351 days 17 years, 294 days
Subhro Kamal Mukherjee Karnataka 15 September 2000 23 February 2016 9 October 2017 1 year, 229 days 17 years, 25 days
Girish Chandra Gupta Calcutta 21 September 2016 30 November 2016 71 days 16 years, 77 days
Indira Banerjee Madras 5 February 2002 5 April 2017 6 August 2018[‡] 1 year, 124 days 16 years, 183 days
Jyotirmay Bhattacharya Calcutta 3 December 2003 1 May 2018 24 September 2018 147 days 14 years, 296 days
Aniruddha Bose Jharkhand 19 January 2004 11 August 2018 23 May 2019[‡] 286 days 15 years, 125 days
Debasish Kar Gupta Calcutta 22 June 2006 30 October 2018 31 December 2018 63 days 12 years, 193 days [33]
Biswanath Somadder Meghalaya, transferred to Sikkim 27 April 2020 14 December 2025 5 years, 232 days 19 years, 176 days [34]
Dipankar Datta Bombay 28 April 2020 11 December 2022[‡] 2 years, 228 days 16 years, 172 days
Sanjib Banerjee Madras, transferred to Meghalaya 4 January 2021 1 November 2023 1 year, 343 days 17 years, 133 days
Indra Prasanna Mukerji Meghalaya 18 May 2009 3 October 2024 5 September 2025 338 days 16 years, 111 days
Harish Tandon Orissa 13 April 2010 26 March 2025 Incumbent 1 year, 133 days 16 years, 115 days
Soumen Sen Meghalaya, transferred to Kerala 13 April 2011 8 October 2025 302 days 15 years, 115 days

Judges appointed as Acting Chief Justice[edit | edit source]

Name Appointed as ACJ in HC of Date of appointment as Judge Period as Acting Chief Justice Date of retirement[lower-alpha 1] Tenure as ACJ Tenure as Judge Remarks Ref..
P. B. Mukharji Calcutta 3 January 1949 14 January 1970 – 19 May 1970 30 July 1972 126 days 23 years, 210 days Became permanent [35]
S. Mukharji Calcutta 31 July 1968 1 March 1983 – 14 March 1983 14 March 1983[‡] 14 days 14 years, 227 days Elevated to Supreme Court [36]
Tarun Kumar Basu Calcutta 15 March 1983 – 28 November 1983 1 February 1986 259 days 17 years, 186 days -- [37][38]
Rabindranath Pyne Calcutta 6 March 1974 3 May 1988 – 19 May 1988 8 October 1990 17 days 16 years, 217 days Elevated as CJ of Delhi [39]
Manashnath Roy Calcutta 10 June 1974 20 May 1988 – 13 November 1988 11 November 1990 178 days 16 years, 155 days -- [40]
Samir Kumar Mookherjee Calcutta 9 January 1984 6 July 1998 – 29 April 1999 29 April 1999 298 days 15 years, 111 days Retired as ACJ [41][42]
Susanta Chatterjee Orissa 17 January 1986 16 February 1996 – 1 August 1996 1 April 1999 168 days 13 years, 75 days -- [43]
28 January 1999 – 1 April 1999 64 days Retired as ACJ [44]
S. K. Sen Calcutta 29 April 1999 – 17 May 1999 24 November 2002 19 days 16 years, 312 days Appointed as Acting Governor of West Bengal [45]
5 December 1999 – 21 December 1999 17 days --
Allahabad 8 May 2000 – 17 July 2000 71 days Became permanent
A. N. Ray Calcutta 6 August 1990 7 June 2004 – 10 January 2005 30 October 2008 218 days 18 years, 86 days Elevated as CJ of Allahabad [46]
A. Kabir Calcutta 11 January 2005 – 28 February 2005 8 September 2005[‡] 49 days 15 years, 34 days Elevated as CJ of Jharkhand [47]
A. K. Ganguly Calcutta 10 January 1994 1 March 2005 – 19 March 2005 15 December 2008[‡] 19 days 14 years, 342 days -- [48]
Orissa 28 January 2007 – 1 March 2007 33 days Became permanent
Malay Sengupta Sikkim 27 September 1995 27 October 1996 – 26 August 1997 9 November 1998 304 days 3 years, 44 days -- [49]
27 September 1997 – 26 December 1997 91 days
Amitava Lala Allahabad 12 May 1997 8 February 2010 – 25 June 2010 19 November 2012 138 days 15 years, 192 days [50]
31 July 2011 – 4 August 2011 5 days
8 August 2012 – 19 November 2012 104 days Retired as ACJ
B. Bhattacharya Calcutta 17 July 1997 12 January 2007 – 6 March 2007 28 September 2014 54 days 17 years, 74 days -- [51]
17 November 2009 – 23 December 2009 37 days [52]
Gujarat 8 November 2011 – 20 July 2012 256 days Became permanent
P. C. Ghose Andhra Pradesh 25 June 2012 – 11 December 2012 7 March 2013[‡] 170 days 15 years, 234 days
K. J. Sengupta Calcutta 5 October 2012 – 30 October 2012 6 May 2015 26 days 17 years, 294 days Transferred to Uttarakhand [53]
Pratap Kumar Ray Calcutta 15 September 2000 31 October 2012 – 14 December 2012 8 January 2013 45 days 12 years, 116 days -- [54]
Ashim Kumar Banerjee Calcutta 7 July 2014 – 5 August 2014 1 June 2015 30 days 14 years, 260 days [55][56]
S. K. Mukherjee Karnataka 4 June 2015 – 22 February 2016 9 October 2017 264 days 17 years, 25 days Became permanent [57]
G. C. Gupta Calcutta 22 August 2016 – 20 September 2016 30 November 2016 30 days 16 years, 77 days Became permanent [33]
J. M. Bhattacharya Calcutta 3 December 2003 25 October 2017 – 30 April 2018 24 September 2018 188 days 14 years, 296 days
D. K. Gupta Calcutta 22 June 2006 25 September 2018 – 29 October 2018 31 December 2018 35 days 12 years, 193 days
Biswanath Somadder Calcutta 1 January 2019 – 3 April 2019 14 December 2025 93 days 19 years, 176 days --
Soumen Sen Calcutta 13 April 2011 8 October 2025 – 15 January 2026 Incumbent 22 days 15 years, 115 days Elevated as CJ of Meghalaya
Arindam Sinha Orissa 30 October 2013 20 January 2025 – 25 March 2025 65 days 12 years, 280 days --
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 this includes date of resignation, death and elevation to supreme court
  2. ↑ also includes tenure as Chief Justice
  3. ↑ Then known as High Court of princely state of Jaipur
  4. ↑ Then Federal Court of India

Judges elevated to Supreme Court[edit | edit source]

This section includes the list of only those judges whose parent high court was Calcutta. This includes those judges who, at the time of elevation to Supreme Court of India, may not be serving in Calcutta High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of elevation were serving in Calcutta High Court but does not have Calcutta as their Parent High Court.

  Served as Chief Justice of India
# Name of the Judge Image Date of Appointment Date of Retirement Tenure Immediately preceding office
In Parent High Court In Supreme Court In High Court(s) In Supreme Court Total tenure[lower-alpha 1]
1 Bijan Kumar Mukherjea 8 July 1936 13 October 1948[lower-alpha 2] 31 January 1956 12 years, 98 days 7 years, 111 days 19 years, 208 days Judge of Calcutta HC
2 Sudhi Ranjan Das 1 December 1942 20 January 1950[lower-alpha 3] 30 September 1959 7 years, 50 days 9 years, 254 days 16 years, 304 days 2nd CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
3 Amal Kumar Sarkar 25 January 1949 4 March 1957 29 June 1966 8 years, 38 days 9 years, 118 days 17 years, 156 days Judge of Calcutta HC
4 Kulada Charan Das Gupta June 1948 24 August 1959 2 January 1965 5 years, 132 days 12th CJ of Calcutta HC
5 Ranadhir Singh Bachawat 23 January 1950 7 September 1964 31 July 1969 14 years, 228 days 4 years, 328 days 19 years, 190 days Judge of Calcutta HC
6 Gopendra Krishna Mitter 24 November 1952 29 August 1966 23 September 1971 13 years, 278 days 5 years, 26 days 18 years, 304 days Judge of Calcutta HC
7 Ajit Nath Ray 23 December 1957 1 August 1969 27 January 1977 11 years, 221 days 7 years, 180 days 19 years, 36 days Judge of Calcutta HC
8 Arun Kumar Mukherjea 27 February 1962 14 August 1972 23 October 1973[†] 10 years, 169 days 1 year, 71 days 11 years, 239 days Judge of Calcutta HC
9 Alak Chandra Gupta 24 February 1964 2 September 1974 31 December 1981 10 years, 190 days 7 years, 121 days 17 years, 311 days Judge of Calcutta HC
10 Amarendra Nath Sen 15 November 1965 28 January 1981 30 September 1985 15 years, 74 days 4 years, 246 days 19 years, 320 days 18th CJ of Calcutta HC
11 Sabyasachi Mukharji 31 July 1968 15 March 1983 25 September 1990[†] 14 years, 227 days 7 years, 195 days 22 years, 57 days Acting CJ of Calcutta HC
12 Bankim Chandra Ray 10 June 1974 29 October 1985 31 October 1991 11 years, 141 days 6 years, 3 days 17 years, 144 days Judge of Calcutta HC
13 Murari Mohan Dutt 18 September 1969 10 March 1986 29 October 1989 16 years, 173 days 3 years, 234 days 20 years, 42 days Judge of Calcutta HC
14 Ganendra Narayan Ray 23 December 1976 7 October 1991 30 April 1998 14 years, 288 days 6 years, 206 days 21 years, 129 days 11th CJ of Gujarat HC
15 Manoj Kumar Mukherjee 17 June 1977 14 December 1993 30 November 1998 16 years, 180 days 4 years, 352 days 21 years, 167 days 27th CJ of Bombay HC
16 Suhas C. Sen 23 November 1981 11 June 1994 20 December 1997 12 years, 200 days 3 years, 193 days 16 years, 28 days Judge of Calcutta HC
17 Umesh Chandra Banerjee 9 January 1984 9 December 1998 17 November 2002 14 years, 334 days 3 years, 344 days 18 years, 313 days CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
18 Ruma Pal 6 August 1990 28 January 2000 3 June 2006 9 years, 175 days 6 years, 127 days 15 years, 302 days Judge of Calcutta HC
19 Tarun Chatterjee 27 August 2004 14 January 2010 14 years, 21 days 5 years, 141 days 19 years, 162 days 38th CJ of Allahabad HC
20 Altamas Kabir 6 August 1990 9 September 2005 18 July 2013 15 years, 34 days 7 years, 313 days 22 years, 347 days 3rd CJ of Jharkhand HC
21 Asok Kumar Ganguly 10 January 1994 17 December 2008 3 February 2012 14 years, 342 days 3 years, 49 days 18 years, 25 days 34th CJ of Madras HC
22 Pinaki Chandra Ghose 17 July 1997 8 March 2013 27 May 2017 15 years, 234 days 4 years, 81 days 19 years, 315 days CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
23 Indira Banerjee 5 February 2002 7 August 2018 23 September 2022 16 years, 183 days 4 years, 48 days 20 years, 231 days 39th CJ of Madras HC
24 Aniruddha Bose 19 January 2004 24 May 2019 10 April 2024 15 years, 125 days 4 years, 323 days 20 years, 83 days 12th CJ of Jharkhand HC
25 Dipankar Datta 22 June 2006 12 December 2022 Incumbent 16 years, 172 days 3 years, 237 days 20 years, 45 days 45th CJ of Bombay HC
26 Joymalya Bagchi 27 June 2011 17 March 2025 13 years, 262 days 1 year, 142 days 15 years, 40 days Judge of Calcutta HC
  1. ↑ Includes both tenure as High Court Judge as well as Supreme Court Judge
  2. ↑ Elevated to the Federal Court of India on 13 October 1948, and became part of the Supreme Court of India after its establishment on 26 January 1950.
  3. ↑ Elevated to the Federal Court of India on 20 January 1950, and became part of the Supreme Court of India after its establishment on 26 January 1950.

Building[edit | edit source]

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 at Ypres, Belgium.[4] In 1977 another building named High Court Centenary Building or annexed building was inaugurated to reduce the pressure.[58]

Connectivity[edit | edit source]

Rails[edit | edit source]

Eden Gardens railway station is the nearest railway station, which is 650 meters away from the court. Esplanade metro station, the nearest rapid rail transit is 1.3 km away.[citation needed]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Which is the oldest High Court in India?". TimesNow. 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The High Court, Kolkata, by Walter L. B. Granville (1819-1874)". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  3. ↑ A Brief History about Calcutta High Court
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Court's official website". Archived from the original on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2007.
  5. ↑ "Cabinet renames high courts in Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai". 5 July 2016.
  6. ↑ PTI (20 July 2016). "Govt. moves Bill to change names of High Courts". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "Orders/notification of establishment of a bench of Calcutta High Court at Jalpaiguri (English/ Hindi) (07.02.2019)" (PDF). Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Supreme Court of Bangladesh". www.supremecourt.gov.bd. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  9. ↑ "History of the High Court at Allahabad during the Chief Justice". www.allahabadhighcourt.in. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Page no.68 - 69" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "Page 4950 | Issue 27338, 26 July 1901 | London Gaze..." The Gazette. Archived from the original on 16 December 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
  12. ↑ "Some English Judges whom I Admired" (PDF).
  13. ↑ "THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929".
  14. ↑ "Former Chairmen of RPSC".
  15. ↑ "Appointment of S. C. Lahiri as Chief Justice".
  16. ↑ "Allegations against P. B. Mukharji".
  17. ↑ "Appointment of S. R. Das Gupta as Chief Justice" (PDF).
  18. ↑ "Appointment of H. K. Bose as Chief Justice".
  19. ↑ "Appointment of D. N. Sinha as Permanent Chief Justice".
  20. ↑ "Appointment of S. P. Mitra".
  21. ↑ "Appointment of S. C. Ghose".
  22. ↑ "Appointment of S. C. Deb as judge" (PDF).
  23. ↑ "Appointment of S. C. Deb as CJ".
  24. ↑ "Appointment of P. K. Banerjee as judge" (PDF).
  25. ↑ "Appointment of A. K. Sen as judge" (PDF).
  26. ↑ "Official Website of High Court of Bombay". bombayhighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 6 October 2025. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
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  28. ↑ "Justice Rabindranath Pyne | Welcome To Delhi High Court". www.delhihighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
  29. ↑ Court, India Supreme (1988). Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India.
  30. ↑ Court, India Supreme (1988). Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India.
  31. ↑ Court, India Supreme (1988). Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India.
  32. ↑ "Appointment of S. K. Sen (pg. no. 97)".
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 "Former Chief Justices of Calcutta High Court".
  34. ↑ Court, Calcutta High. "Calcutta High Court - Judges". www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in. Archived from the original on 16 December 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2025.
  35. ↑ "Appointment of P. B. Mukharji as Acting CJ" (PDF).
  36. ↑ "Justice Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Supreme Court of India | India". www.sci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 28 January 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  37. ↑ Court, India Supreme (1979). Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India.
  38. ↑ "Calcutta Chemical Co. Ltd. v. Dhiresh Chandra Roy., Calcutta High Court, Judgment, Law, casemine.com". www.casemine.com. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  39. ↑ "Judgement mentioning R. N. Pyne as Acting CJ".
  40. ↑ Court, India Supreme (1988). Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India.
  41. ↑ "Your Honour, send 'em to this school. They will at least learn to feel shame". Telegraph India. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  42. ↑ Court, India Supreme (1988). Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts as on ... Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of Justice, Government of India.
  43. ↑ "Read more on Harekrushna Samal and Others Vs. Kashi Mallik and Others on 30 July, 1996 - Legitquest. Find Court Judgments and Legal Cases in India". www.legitquest.com. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
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  45. ↑ "Hon'ble Mr. Justice Shyamal Kumar Sen". www.allahabadhighcourt.in. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  46. ↑ "Profile : Justice Ajoy Kumar Ray".
  47. ↑ "High Court of Jharkhand, India". jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  48. ↑ "Supreme Court annual report 2008-09" (PDF). sci.gov.in. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  49. ↑ "Profile : Malay Sengupta".
  50. ↑ "Hon'ble Mr. Justice Amitava Lala (ACJ)". www.allahabadhighcourt.in. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  51. ↑ Staff (16 January 2007). "Chief justice issues directives to end stalemate in lower court". Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  52. ↑ "Bhaskar Bhattacharya News Photo Swearing-in-Ceremony: A..." Times Of India. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  53. ↑ "High Court of Andhra Pradesh". aphc.gov.in. Archived from the original on 22 August 2025. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  54. ↑ "Profile : Pratap Kumar Ray". National Green Tribunal. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  55. ↑ Court, Calcutta High. "Calcutta High Court - Judges". www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in. Archived from the original on 16 December 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  56. ↑ "Southern Road Carriers Limited vs Jai Balaji Industries Limited on 16 July, 2014". indiankanoon.org. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  57. ↑ "Order of appointment of Justice S. K. Mukherjee as Acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court".
  58. ↑ HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. "CITY SESSIONS COURT, CALCUTTA". calcuttahighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2017.

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