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    List of Supreme Court & High Court Judges Appointed in India: 2019

    Jan 9, 2020, 19:51 IST

    In this article, we have listed the names of the judges appointed in the Supreme Court and the High Courts in 2019. 

    Judges appointed in 2019
    Judges appointed in 2019

    The year 2019 witnessed the appointment of several judges in the Supreme court (the highest court in the Republic of India) as well as the High Court (the highest court in the state of Republic of India). Here is the complete list of the Judges appointed in India in 2019. 

     

    Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal

    Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court

    Justice Sanjay Karol

    Chief Justice of Patna High Court

    Justice Muhammad Raffiq

    Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court

    Justice AP Sahi

    Chief Justice of Madras High Court

    Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi

    Chief Justice of the High Court of Tripura

    Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan 

    Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court

    Justice Ravi Ranjan

    Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court

    Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde

    47th Chief Justice of India

    Lingappa Narayana Swamy

    Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court

    Ravi ShankerJha

    Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court

    Indrajit Mohanty

    Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court

    J.K. Maheshwari

    Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court

    S. Manikumar

    Chief Justice of Kerala High Court

    Arup K. Goswami

    Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court

    Ajai Lamba

    Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court

    Justice Vikram Nath

    Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court

    Justice AK Sikri

    Judge of the Singapore International Commercial court (SICC)

    Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel

    Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court

    Raghvendra Singh Chauhan

    Chief Justice of Telangana High Court

    Justice V Ramasubramanian

    Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court

    Justice Prashant Kumar

    Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court

    Justice PR Ramachandra Menon

    Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court 

    Justice T B N Radhakrishnan

    Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court

    Justice Pradeep Nandrajog

    Chief Justice of Bombay High Court

    Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Sanjiv Khanna

    Judges of Supreme Court

    Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan

    1st Chief Justice of Telangana High Court

    Who is the Chief Justice of India? 

    Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde is the 47th Chief Justice of India. He succeeded Justice Ranjan Gogoi.  Judges at the Supreme Court retire at the age of 65 years. 

    How many High Courts are there in India? 

    There are currently 25 High Courts in India with seven of them having multiple jurisdictions. 

    So, these were the judges who were appointed in 2019 in the Supreme Court and the High Courts of India. The names of judges of Supreme Court and High Courts are asked in the competitive exams. 

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