# Meghalaya High Court

The Meghalaya High Court is the High Court of the state of Meghalaya. 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. This court has four permanent judges, including the Hon'ble Chief Justice, and three Hon'ble Judges.
The current Chief Justice is Justice Indra Prasanna Mukerji, who took charge on 3 October 2024.

## List of chief justices

| # | Chief justice | Tenure | Tenure |
| # | 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 | 23 March 2013 |
There have been fourteen chief justices of the Meghalaya High Court, out of whom two were elevated as judges of the Supreme Court of India, Prafulla Chandra Pant and Dinesh Maheshwari
| # | Chief Justice | Tenure | Tenure |
| # | Chief Justice | Start | End |
| 33 | T. Meena Kumari | 23 March 2013 | 3 August 2013 |
| 34 | Prafulla Chandra Pant | 20 September 2013 | 12 August 2014 |
| 35 | Uma Nath Singh | 19 March 2015 | 14 January 2016 |
| 36 | Dinesh Maheshwari | 24 February 2016 | 12 February 2018 |
| 37 | Tarun Agarwala | 12 February 2018 | 2 March 2018 |
| 38 | Mohammad Yaqoob Mir | 21 May 2018 | 27 May 2019 |
| 39 | Ajay Kumar Mittal | 28 May 2019 | 2 November 2019 |
| 40 | Mohammad Rafiq | 13 November 2019 | 26 April 2020 |
| 41 | Biswanath Somadder | 27 April 2020 | 11 October 2021 |
| 42 | Ranjit Vasantrao More | 12 October 2021 | 3 November 2021 |
| 43 | Sanjib Banerjee | 24 November 2021 | 1 November 2023 |
| 44 | S. Vaidyanathan | 11 February 2024 | 16 August 2024 |
| 45 | Indra Prasanna Mukerji | 21 September 2024 | |