Jammu and Kashmir High Court - Wikipedia Jammu and Kashmir High Court Jammu and Kashmir High Court Established 1928 Country India Location Srinagar Wing ( Summer ) and Jammu Wing ( Winter ) Composition method Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state. Authorized by Constitution of India Decisions are appealed to Supreme Court of India Judge term length Mandatory retirement at the age of 62 No. of positions 17 ( 12 Permanent Judges and 5 Additional Judges ) Website www.jkhighcourt.nic.in Chief Justice Currently Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar Since 16 March 2018 The Jammu and Kashmir High Court is the High Court of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was established in the year 1928 by letters patent issued by the Maharaja of Jammu Kashmir. The seat of the court shifts between its summer capital Srinagar and winter capital Jammu. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 14 in which 9 are permanent judges and 5 are additional judges. Chapter VII of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir deals with high court. Contents 1 History 2 The acting Chief Justice 3 List of former Chief Justices 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links History The High Court of the Jammu and Kashmir state was established on the basis of the Order No. 1 issued by the Maharaja on 26 March 1928. The Maharaja appointed Lala Kanwar Sain as the first Chief Justice and Lala Bodh Raj Sawhney, Rai Bahadur & Khan Sahib Aga Syed Hussain as Puisne Judges. The seats of the High Court were at Jammu and Srinagar. On 10 September 1943, letters patent were conferred on the High Court by the Maharaja. Khan Sahib Aga Syed Hussain was the first Muslim Judge of the High Court. He retired as Home and Judicial Minister of Jammu & Kashmir during the Maharaja Rule. The acting Chief Justice Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar was appointed as the acting Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on the 16th of March 2018. List of former Chief Justices # Chief Justice Term Kanwar Sain 27 April 1928 -- 16 February 1931 Birjor Dalal 16 February 1931 -- 24 November 1936 Abdul Qayoom 24 November 1936 -- 20 July 1940 Rachpal Singh 13 August 1940 -- 6 March 1942 5 Ganga Nath 24 June 1942 -- 23 October 1945 6 S.K. Ghose 29 March 1946 -- 29 March 1948 7 Janki Nath Wazir 30 March 1948 -- 2 December 1967 8 Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali 3 December 1967 -- 1 April 1975 9 Raja Jaswant Singh 2 April 1975 -- 23 January 1976 10 M.R.A. Ansari 23 January 1976 -- 8 November 1977 11 Mian Jalal - ud - Din 15 February 1978 -- 22 February 1980 12 Mufti Baha - ud - Din 7 March 1983 -- 23 August 1983 13 V. Angarial Khalid 24 August 1983 -- 24 June 1984 14 Adarsh Sein Anand 11 May 1985 -- 23 October 1989 15 S.S. Kang 24 October 1989 -- 14 May 1993 16 S.C. Mathur 10 October 1993 -- 17 March 1994 17 S. Sagir Ahmed 18 March 1994 -- 22 September 1994 18 M. Ramakrishna 10 October 1994 -- 15 June 1997 19 Bhawani Singh 16 June 1997 -- 21 February 2000 20 B.P. Saraf 21 February 2000 -- 22 August 2001 21 H.K. Sema 12 September 2001 -- 8 April 2002 22 B.C. Patel 16 May 2002 -- 4 March 2003 23 S.N. Jha 4 February 2004 -- 11 October 2005 24 B.A. Khan 25 January 2007 -- 31 March 2007 25 Aftab Alam 7 June 2007 -- 10 November 2007 26 K.S. Radhakrishnan 7 January 2008 -- 28 August 2008 27 Manmohan Sarin 4 September 2008 -- 19 October 2008 28 Barin Ghosh 3 January 2009 -- 13 April 2010 29 Dr. Justice Aftab Hussain Saikia 13 April 2010 -- 6 April 2011 30 F.M. Ibrahim Kalifulla 24 February 2011 -- 2 April 2012 31 M.M. Kumar 8 June 2012 -- 4 January 2015 32 N. Paul Vasanthakumar 2 February 2015 - 14 March 2017 33 Badar Durrez Ahmed 1 April 2017 - 15 March 2018 References Jump up ^ `` History ''. Jkhighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 2016 - 11 - 06. Jump up ^ `` Law Department J&K ''. jklaw.nic.in. Retrieved 2017 - 02 - 08. Jump up ^ `` History ''. jkhighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 2017 - 02 - 08. Jump up ^ `` History ''. Jkhighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 2016 - 11 - 06. Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Jump up ^ Altaf, Sana ( 2011 - 12 - 01 ). `` Changing times. '' Newsinsight.net. Retrieved 2016 - 11 - 06. Jump up ^ http://jkhighcourt.nic.in/cjjk.php Jump up ^ http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/justice-badar-durrez-ahmed-sworn-in-as-chief-justice-of-jammu-and-kashmir-hc/story-aTSuo0QgGl1FiD87xx9MGM.html Further reading Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts Judge strength in High Courts increased External links Jammu and Kashmir High Court official website High courts of India Allahabad High Court Bombay High Court Calcutta High Court Chhattisgarh High Court Delhi High Court Gujarat High Court Gauhati High Court Himachal Pradesh High Court Hyderabad High Court Jammu and Kashmir High Court Jharkhand High Court Karnataka High Court Kerala High Court Madhya Pradesh High Court Madras High Court Manipur High Court Meghalaya High Court Odisha High Court Patna High Court Punjab and Haryana High Court Rajasthan High Court Sikkim High Court Tripura High Court Uttarakhand High Court This article about government in India is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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Question: where is the high court of jammu and kashmir
Answer: Srinagar Wing (Summer) and Jammu Wing (Winter)