# Tripura High Court

The Tripura High Court is the High Court of the state of Tripura. It was established on 23 March 2013, after making suitable amendments in the Constitution of India and North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act, 1971. The seat of the High Court is at Agartala, the capital of Tripura. The first Chief Justice was Justice Deepak Gupta (23 March 2013 to 16 May 2016) Earlier, the state of Tripura along with the other six states of the North - East of India was under the Guwahati High Court, a permanent bench of the Guwahati High Court was established in Agartala in the year 1992 having territorial jurisdiction of the state of Tripura.
The current chief justice is Aparesh Kumar Singh. He took oath on 13 April 2023.

## List of chief justices

| # | Portrait | Chief justice | Tenure | Tenure |
| # | Portrait | Chief justice | Start | End |
| 1 | | Leonard Stone (judge) | 1947 | 1947 |
| 2 | | Ronald Francis Lodge | 1947 | 1948 |
| 3 | | T V Thadani | 1948 | 1949 |
| 4 | | Sarjoo Prasad | 1949 | 1950 |
| 5 | | Chandreswar Prasad Sinha | 1950 | 1952 |
| 6 | | Holiram Deka | 1952 | 1952 |
| 7 | | G. Mehrotra | 1952 | 1953 |
| (6) | | Holiram Deka | 1954 | 1957 |
| (7) | | G. Mehrotra | 1957 | 1958 |
| (6) | | Holiram Deka | 1958 | 1960 |
| (7) | | G. Mehrotra | 1960 | 1965 |
| 8 | | C. S. Row Nayudu | 1965 | 1970 |
| (7) | | G. Mehrotra | 1970 | 1973 |
| 9 | | S. K. Dutta | 1973 | 1973 |
| (8) | | C. S. Row Nayudu | 1973 | 1974 |
| (9) | | S. K. Dutta | 1974 | 1975 |
| 10 | | M. C. Pathak | 1975 | 1976 |
| 11 | | M. S. Swamy | 1976 | 1977 |
| (10) | | M. C. Pathak | 1977 | 1978 |
| (11) | | M. S. Swamy | 1978 | 1978 |
| 12 | | C. M. Lodha | 6 July 1978 | 10 March 1979 |
| 13 | | Debi Singh Tewatia | 10 March 1979 | 30 September 1985 |
| 14 | | P. C. Reddy | 30 September 1985 | 2 November 1986 |
| 15 | | K. M. Lahiri | 1986 | 1986 |
| 16 | | T. S. Misra | 1986 | 1988 |
| 17 | | G. M. Lodha | 1 March 1988 | 15 March 1988 |
| 18 | | A. S. Raghuvir | 6 May 1988 | 21 March 1991 |
| 19 | | R. K. Manisana Singh | 27 January 1994 | 1 February 1994 |
| 20 | | V. K. Khanna | 1 February 1994 | 14 February 1997 |
| 21 | | M. Ramakrishna | 18 June 1997 | 12 February 1999 |
| 22 | | Brijesh Kumar | 12 February 1999 | 19 October 2000 |
| 23 | | N. C. Jain | 20 October 2000 | 5 April 2001 |
| 24 | | R. S. Mongia | 5 April 2001 | 10 June 2002 |
| 25 | | P. P. Naolekar | 10 June 2002 | 27 August 2004 |
| 26 | | Binod Kumar Roy | 27 August 2004 | 5 December 2005 |
| 27 | | B. S. Reddy | 5 December 2005 | 12 January 2007 |
| 28 | | Jasti Chelameswar | 12 January 2007 | 17 March 2010 |
| 29 | | Ramesh Surajmal Garg | 17 April 2010 | 18 June 2010 |
| 30 | | Madan Lokur | 18 June 2010 | 20 December 2011 |
| 31 | | Adarsh Kumar Goel | 20 December 2011 | 23 March 2013 |
| 32 | | Deepak Gupta | 23 March 2013 | 15 May 2016 |
| 33 | | T. Vaiphei | 21 September 2016 | 28 February 2018 |
| 34 | | Ajay Rastogi | 1 March 2018 | 1 November 2018 |
| 35 | | Sanjay Karol | 14 November 2018 | 10 November 2019 |
| 36 | | Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi | 16 November 2019 | 11 October 2021 |
| 37 | | Indrajit Mahanty | 12 October 2021 | 10 November 2022 |
| 38 | | Jaswant Singh | 15 February 2023 | 22 February 2023 |
| 39 | | Aparesh Kumar Singh | 13 April 2023 | Incumbent |

## Notable people

* Satya Gopal Chattopadhyay (born 1963), High Court judge (2020–2022)