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High Court for the states of Punjab and Haryana

Punjab and Haryana High Court is the common High Court for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh based in Chandigarh, India. Sanctioned strength of Judges of this High Court is 85 consisting of 64 Permanent Judges and 21 Additional Judges including Chief Justice. As of 14 September 2023, there are 58 Judges working in the High Court, comprising 36 Permanent and 22 Additional Judges. The court building is known as the Palace of Justice. Designed by Le Corbusier, it and several of his other works were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in July 2016. Sarv Mittra Sikri, who had been practising in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana and remained Advocate General for Punjab from 1 November 1956 to 2 February 1964, was the first to be appointed as judge of the Supreme Court of India on 3 February 1964 directly from the Bar; later, becoming the Chief Justice of India on 22 January 1971, again with the distinction of being first of only two CJIs directly from the Bar. Past judges include Madan Mohan Punchhi, P. Sathasivam, Tirath Singh Thakur, Jagdish Singh Khehar and Ranjan Gogoi who were elevated to the Supreme Court of India and became Chief Justice of India.

Punjab and Haryana High Court was formerly known as Lahore High Court, which was established on 21 March 1919. The jurisdiction of that court covered undivided Punjab and Delhi. From 1920 to 1943, the Court was conferred with extraterritorial jurisdiction over that part of China that formed part of the British consular district of Kashgar, which had previously been under the jurisdiction of the British Supreme Court for China. This ceased upon the ratification of the British Chinese Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra Territorial Rights in China.

Following the independence of India and its Partition on 15 August 1947, a separate High Court of East Punjab was created by the Governor General's High Courts (Punjab) Order, 1947 issued under Section 9 of the Indian Independence Act, 1947, based at historic Peterhoff building in Shimla for the territories as included in the then Province of East Punjab and the then Province of Delhi. This had jurisdiction over the erstwhile territories of Patiala and East Punjab States Union and the East Punjab Province, which now covers areas of Indian Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. It was at Peterhoff where the trial of Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, took place in 1948–49. On introduction of the Constitution of India on 26 January 1950, the State of East Punjab came to be known as the Punjab and accordingly, the name of the High Court was also changed as High Court of Punjab. Simultaneously, Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU), which was created by uniting eight princely states on 15 July 1948, was also made a Part 'B' State with a separate High Court of Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU). As per Article 214(2) of the Constitution of India, the High Court was to be continued along with other High Courts. From 17 January 1955, the Court was moved to its present location in Chandigarh. By States Reorganisation Act, 1956, Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) was merged in the State of Punjab on 1 November 1956. The Judges of the High Court of Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) became Judges of the Punjab High Court. The strength of High Court of Punjab, which had originally 8 Judges, rose to 13.

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 paved the way for the formation of Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh from 1 November 1966. Those formations also saw the renaming of the High Court of Punjab as the High Court of Punjab and Haryana. The Judges of the High Court of Punjab became Judges of the common High Court with all the powers and jurisdiction of the High Court of Punjab. However, the principal seat of the High Court remained at Chandigarh. The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has operated since 1 November 1966 in its present form. Three Judges of the Punjab High Court were transferred to the Delhi High Court, which includes a famous Judge Hans Raj Khanna. Following area of State of Punjab namely Shimla, Kangra, Kullu and Lahaul and Spiti Districts; Nalagarh tehsil of Ambala District; Lohara, Amb and Una kanungo circles, some area of Santokhgarh kanungo circle and some other specified area of Una tehsil of Hoshiarpur District besides some parts of Dhar Kalan Kanungo circle of Pathankot tehsil of Gurdaspur District; were merged with Himachal Pradesh on 1 November 1966 as per Section 5 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 and thus the jurisdiction of the High Court was reduced.

Le Corbusier, a well known, French architect, was chosen to execute the project of building the high court. India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, enthusiastically supported the project and took a sustained interest in its execution. When he visited the project on 2 April 1952, he declared "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, an expression of the nation's faith in the future."

DesignationNameD. O. R. Tenure1Justice Ram Lall15 August 194718 January 19492Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das19 January 194921 January 19503Justice Eric Weston21 January 19508 December 19524Justice Amar Nath Bandhari9 December 195218 November 19595Justice Gopal Das Ghosla19 November 195914 December 19616Justice Donald Falshaw15 December 196129 May 1966 7Justice Mehar Singh29 May 196614 August 19708Justice Harbans Singh15 August 19708 April 19749Justice Daya Krishan Mahajan10 April 197411 May 197410Justice Ranjit Singh Narula11 May 197431 November 1977 ACJJustice O. Chinnappa Reddy28 June 197623 October 197611Justice Anand Dev Koshal1 November 197717 July 197812Justice Surjit Singh Sandhawalia17 July 197828 November 1983ACJJustice Prem Chand Jain28 November 198331 July 1985131 August 198518 August 198614Justice Hariday Nath Seth18 August 198614 October 198715Justice Debi Singh Tewatia15 October 198729 October 1987ACJJustice R. N. Mittal30 October 198711 November 198716Justice Veeraswami Ramaswamy12 November 19876 October 1989ACJJustice Shanti Sarup Dewan6 October 198923 October 19891724 October 198931 December 1989ACJJustice Jitendra Vir Gupta1 January 19908 July 1990189 July 19901 May 1991 ACJJustice Gokal Chand Mital19 May 19914 August 1991ACJJustice Iqbal Singh Tiwana5 August 199119 September 199119Justice Bipin Chandra Verma19 September 19912 May 199220Justice Mandagadde Rama Jois3 May 199231 August 1992ACJJustice S. S. Sodhi1 September 199212 November 199221Justice Sudarshan Dayal Agarwal13 November 199214 January 199422Justice Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar16 January 199427 March 1996ACJJustice M. S. Liberhan10 July 199416 August 1994ACJJustice R. P. Sethi16 August 199418 September 199427 March 199627 June 1996ACJJustice M. S. Liberhan27 June 199630 July 199623Justice K. Sreedharan30 July 199618 October 1997ACJJustice Amarjeet Chaudhary18 October 19977 November 199724Justice A. B. Saharya7 November 199714 September 2002ACJJustice G. S. Singhvi28 January 200217 April 20025 August 200211 August 20022 September 20028 September 200214 September 200214 October 200225Justice Binod Kumar Roy14 October 200221 February 2005ACJJustice G. S. Singhvi21 February 200525 February 2005ACJJustice H. S. Bedi26 February 200511 March 200526Justice D. K. Jain11 March 20059 April 2006ACJJustice H. S. Bedi10 April 20062 October 2006ACJJustice S. S. Nijjar3 October 200628 November 200627Justice Vijender Jain28 November 20061 August 2008ACJJustice Jagdish Singh Khehar2 August 200811 August 200828Justice Tirath Singh Thakur11 August 200816 November 2009ACJJustice Jagdish Singh Khehar17 November 200929 November 2009ACJJustice Mehtab Singh Gill29 November 20095 December 200929Justice Mukul Mudgal5 December 20093 January 2011ACJJustice Ranjan Gogoi4 January 201111 February 20113012 February 201122 April 2012ACJJustice Adarsh Kumar Goel2 February 201111 September 2011ACJJustice M. M. Kumar12 September 2011 9 November 201123 April 20128 June 2012ACJJustice Jasbir Singh8 June 201223 September 201231Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri23 September 201211 April 2013ACJJustice Jasbir Singh12 April 201331 May 201332Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul1 June 201325 July 2014ACJJustice Ashutosh Mohanta26 July 201415 December 2014ACJJustice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar15 December 20146 August 2016337 August 20163 May 2018ACJJustice Ajay Kumar Mittal4 May 20182 June 201834Justice Krishna Murari2 June 201822 September 2019ACJJustice Rajeev Sharma23 September 20195 October 201935Justice Ravi Shankar Jha6 October 201913 October 2023ACJJustice Ritu Bahri14 October 20233 February 2024ACJJustice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia 4 February 2024Incumbent

VPN connection has been provided to honourable judges of high court for accessing DMS for scanned paper books from their camp office or from any other place.

e diary is a feature whereby account holders can manage their own case portfolio and view the cases filed or represented by them. Online status of the case along with interim and final orders/ judgments were made available through e diary. All identified cases of different departments such as Income tax department, Insurance company, Union of India, Advocates General of Punjab and Haryana are automatically pushed in their online e diary accounts. In addition to the e diary system, the state governments are in develop court cases monitoring system(CCMS) through which they will monitor pending cases in the Supreme court of India.

Online web based e filing module is functional for filing cases 24 X 7. e filed cases expedite issuance of copies of orders, summons and is a step towards paperless court regime. It is made compulsory to file cases on online.

In the house, the software has been developed, which contains personal profile and service record of the judicial officer. Access to relevant information has been given at different levels such as Administrative judge, registrar general, registrar vigilance, district judge and the officer concerned.

Decided cases are available on the website of the high court. On many occasions, the final order is reviewed/ modified or challenged by filing into court appeal. Status subsequent to final disposal of the matter is shown and when print out of final order is taken from the website. The printout carries a message showing the up to date status of the case.

In a case of cow smuggling, the Punjab and Haryana High Court while treating animals as the "legal person" mandated that "entire animal kingdom including avian and aquatic" species has a "distinct legal persona with corresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person" and humans are "loco parentis" while laying out the norms for animal welfare, veterinary treatment, fodder and shelter, e. g. animal drawn carriages must not have more than four humans, and load carrying animals must not be loaded beyond the specified limits and those limits must be halved when animals have to carry the load up a slope.