Bombay High Court
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The Bombay High Court (Hindi: बम्बई उच्च न्यायालय) was inaugurated on August 14, 1862. The work on the present building of the High Court was commenced in April 1871 and completed in November 1878. It was designed by British engineer Col. J.A. Fuller. The first sitting in this building was on January 10, 1879. Architecture: Gothic revival in the Early English style. It is 562 feet long and 189 feet wide. To the west of the central tower are two octagonal towers. The statues of Justice and Mercy are atop this building.
The 125th anniversary of the building is slated to be marked by the release of a book, commissioned by the Bar Association, called "The Bombay High Court: The Story of the Building - 1878–2003" by local historians Rahul Mehrotra and Sharada Dwivedi.
Sanctioned strength: 60. A petition is pending to increase the number to 75 judges.
The court handles 3.4 lakh cases, both civil and criminal. 32 sitting judges of the court disposed around 2,000 cases each in 2004. The court has a ratio of 1:1.61 million :: judges to people. Recently 8 new judges have elavated as High Court Judge.
The court has jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra, Goa and the Union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The court has benches in Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji.
Although the name of the city was changed from Bombay to Mumbai in 1995, the Court as an institution did not follow suit and remained as the Bombay High Court.
The Aurangbad bench was established in 1982, initially on few districts of Maharashtra were under Aurangbad bench, subsequently in 1988 Ahmednagar & others districts were attcahed to the bench The bench at Aurangabad, has more than 12 judges. The jurisdiction of Aurangabad Bench is over Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Dhule, Jalna, Jalgaon,Beed, Parbhani, Latur & Osmanabad. Recently Hon'ble Justice S.C. Bora was elavated as High Court Judge, from the Aurangabad bench.
The bench also has a Bar council of Maharshtra & Goa office.The present building of bench is a situated in a very huge premises.The HC bench at Aurangabad is just approximately 4 KM from the airport and around 6 km from central bus stand.The new building has 11 court halls.All the court halls are on the first floor of the building. While the registry of the Court is on the ground floor.
The Aurangabad bench has a strong Bar of more than 700 advocates.
When the High Court of Bombay constituted a bench in Goa, Justice G.F Couto was appointed its first Goan permanent judge. Later Justice G.D. Kamat was appointed as judge in 1983 and went on to become Chief Justice of Gujarat. Justice E.S da Silva was elevated in 1990 and had a 5 year term. Justice R.K. Batta was briefly a Judge in this bench. Presently Justice N.A. Britto is a permanent judge in Goa. Justice Ferdino Rebello, Justice R.M.S. Khandeparkar and Justice A.V Lavande, all sitting jugdes, were senior lawyers who practised in the Goa Bench before their elevation.
Justice Swatanter Kumar is the Chief Justice. Former CJ Justice H. S. Bedi has been elevated to Supreme Court of India. Hon'ble Justice S H Kapadia, Hon'ble Justice Sirpurkar have been elavated to the Supreme Court from Bombay High Court.
bombayhighcourt.nic.in is the official website of the Bomaby High Court. On the website the case status and judgments of all cases after 2006 is available. The causelist of Bombay High court can be accessed at http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/netbd.php
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In an irony of sorts the word iqbal is very famous in the Bombay High Court being the names of Mr.Iqbal Chagla who is one of the most reputed senior counsels in Mumbai and Iqbal who sits in the Bar Council room famous among all articled clerks for being so honest and generous with his tips to students.
