Meghalaya High Court

Meghalaya High Court
मेघालय उच्च न्यायालय
Meghalaya High Court; मेघालय उच्च न्यायालय
Established	23 March 2013; 10 years ago
Jurisdiction	Meghalaya
Location	Shillong, Meghalaya
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorized by	Constitution of India
Appeals to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	Till 62 years of age
Number of positions	4
Website	meghalayahighcourt.nic.in
Chief Justice
Currently	Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew (ACJ)
Since	4 November 2021

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The Meghalaya High Court is the High Court of the state of Meghalaya.^[1] It was established in March 2013, after making suitable amendments in the Constitution of India and North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act of 1971. Earlier, a bench of the Gauhati High Court had jurisdiction over the state of Meghalaya. The seat of the High Court is at Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya. The strength of judges as for this High Court is 4 permanent judges including the Hon'ble Chief Justice and 3 Hon'ble Judges.

The current Acting Chief Justice is Hon'ble Justice Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew who took charge on 4 November 2021.^[2]

List of Chief Justices[edit]

#	Chief Justice	Tenure
#	Chief Justice	Start	End
1	T. Meena Kumari	23 March 2013	3 August 2013
2	Prafulla Chandra Pant	20 September 2013	12 August 2014
3	Uma Nath Singh	19 March 2015	14 January 2016
4	Dinesh Maheshwari	24 February 2016	12 February 2018
5	Tarun Agarwala	12 February 2018	2 March 2018
6	Mohammad Yaqoob Mir	21 May 2018	27 May 2019
7	Ajay Kumar Mittal	28 May 2019	2 November 2019
8	Mohammad Rafiq	13 November 2019	26 April 2020
9	Biswanath Somadder	27 April 2020	11 October 2021
10	Ranjit Vasantrao More	12 October 2021	3 November 2021

References[edit]

↑ "New Chief Justices for Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura high courts". Times of India. 24 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
↑ "Chief Justice and Judges profile". High Court of Meghalaya. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

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