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The Uttarakhand High Court is the High Court of the state of Uttarakhand in India. The building of Uttarakhand High Court was constructed by Santoni MacDonald in 1900. The Uttarakhand State was carved out from the State of Uttar Pradesh on 9 November 2000 under the
Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted in 2000 for creation of the state of Uttarakhand, then tentatively named Uttaranchal, out of Uttar Pradesh. The law was introduced by NDA government headed ...
. At the time of the creation of the State, the High Court of Uttarakhand was also established on the same day at
Nainital Nainital ( Kumaoni: ''Naintāl''; ) is a city and headquarters of Nainital district of Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India. It is the judicial capital of Uttarakhand, the High Court of the state being located there and is the headquarters o ...
. The sanctioned judge strength at the time of creation in 2000 was 7; this was increased to 9 in 2003. Justice
Ashok Desai Ashok H. Desai (18 December 1932 – 13 April 2020, in Mumbai, India) was an Indian lawyer, practising in the Supreme Court of India. He held office as the Attorney General of India from 9 July 1996 to 6 May 1998. Earlier, he was the Solicitor ...
was the inaugural holder of the office. Former Chief Justices of Uttarakhand Sarosh Homi Kapadia and
Jagdish Singh Khehar Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 28 August 1952) is a former senior advocate and a former judge, who served as the 44th Chief Justice of India in 2017. Khehar is the first chief justice from the Sikh community. He has been a judge in Supreme Court o ...
later went on to become
Chief Justice of India The chief justice of India (IAST: ) is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India as well as the highest-ranking officer of the Indian Judiciary. The Constitution of India grants power to the president of India to appoint, in consultation ...
.
Vipin Sanghi Vipin Sanghi (born 27 October 1961) is an Indian Judge. Presently, he is Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court. He is former Judge of Delhi High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. Career He was born on 27 ...
is the current Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. He assumed office on 28 June 2022.


List of sitting judges of the Uttarakhand High Court

There are currently seven sitting judges including the Chief Justice, with four posts of judges lying vacant.Sitting judges of the Uttarakhand High Court
/ref> Following is the list of the current serving judges of the Uttarakhand High Court, ordered by seniority.


Registrar General

Vivek Bharti Sharma is the current Registrar General of the Uttarakhand High Court. He Assumed office on 4 April 2022.


Landmark judgements


Status of rivers as legal persons

In March 2017, Uttarakhand High Court mandated that the rivers Ganges and
Yamuna The Yamuna ( Hindustani: ), also spelt Jumna, is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about on the southwestern slopes of Ba ...
as well as all water bodies are "living entities" i.e. " legal person" and appointed 3 persons as trustees to protect the rights of rivers against the pollution caused by the humans.Birds to holy rivers: A list of everything India considers “legal persons”
Quartz, September 2019.


Rohit Sagar v. State of Uttarakhand

Rohit Sagar v. State of Uttarakhand (2021) is case where Uttarakhand High Court held that the legal adult have the fundamental right to choose their own partners and directed the Uttarakhand Police to provide necessary protection for the individuals and their property.


See also

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Chief Justice of Uttarakhand The Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court is the highest presiding judicial officer in the state of Uttarakhand and the custodian of the Uttarakhand High Court. He is appointed by the President of India with the advice of Chief Justice ...
* List of judges of the Uttarakhand High Court *
High courts of India The high courts of India are the highest courts of appellate jurisdiction in each state and union territory of India. However, a high court exercises its original civil and criminal jurisdiction only if the subordinate courts are not authorize ...
* List of sitting judges of the high courts of India * Supreme Court of India *
List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India There are currently 34 judges (including the Chief Justice) who comprise the Supreme Court of India, the highest court in the country. The maximum possible strength is 34. According to the Constitution of India, the judges of the Supreme Court ...
* Bar Council of Uttarakhand *
District Courts of India The district courts of India are the district courts of the state governments in India for every district or for one or more districts together taking into account of the number of cases, population distribution in the district. They administe ...
* Nyaya panchayat * Uttarakhand Lok Adalat * Uttarakhand Lokayukta * Judiciary of India


References


External links


The High Court of Uttarakhand, official website






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