Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court, also known as Kolkata High Court located in West Bengal state, It is one of the most important courts in India and has a history that goes back more than a hundred years. It is the oldest high court in India, founded on July 1, 1862, in a beautiful structure that was designed by the official architect of the government at the time, whose name was Mr. Walter Granville. Join us to learn more about this High Court and how you can access its services.
About the Calcutta High Court
This court is located in the city of Kolkata, which is the capital of West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal, and also over the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Being the first High Court of India, it was originally chaired by an English judge, and the court called the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, but a year after it founded, in 1863, it began to preside over by Indian judges, and the first was the Justice Sumboo Nath Pandit. It called both “High Court of Kolkata” and “High Court of Calcutta” because the name of the city changed from “Calcutta” to “Kolkata” in 2001, but the institution continued to identify itself with the previous name.
If the Case finds an issue on closing at AP and Telangana High Court then having an option to transfer the cases to Supreme Court of India
Chief Justice of Calcutta
Currently, the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court is the honorable Mr. Justice Jyotimary Bhattacharya. This man was born on September 25 1956 in India and completed high school and college in Calcutta. He Completed graduation from law school at the University of Calcutta. Hon. Bhattacharya began practicing as a lawyer in 1983 in the High Court of Calcutta and participates in the areas of Civil Law and Writ Jurisdiction. He appointed the permanent head of the High Court of Calcutta in 2003, and despite having served as Acting Chief Justice since 2017, it was recently when he was officially given the position of Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta, on May 1 of 2018.
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Kolkata High Court Cause list and Case Status
It is possible to access a digitized, detailed and instantaneous database through the website of the Calcutta High Court. You can find the scheduling of the cases that will be attended soon in the “Kolkata High Court Cause List” tab, or to know which are the pending cases to be dealt with or that already are concluded with their corresponding verdict in the “Kolkata High Court Case Status” tab. You will find all this material available to download in PDF.
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Calcutta High Court Website: http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in
Calcutta High Court Contact Number: 033 2248 7485
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