The Tripura High Court is the High Court of the state of Tripura. It was established on , after making suitable amendments in the Constitution of India and North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971. The seat of the High Court is at Agartala, the capital of Tripura. The first Chief Justice was Justice Deepak Gupta ( to ) 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 M.S. Ramachandra Rao. He took oath on 22 April 2025.
List of chief justices #PortraitChief justiceTenureStartEnd1Leonard Stone (judge)194719472Ronald Francis Lodge194719483T V Thadani194819494Sarjoo Prasad194919505Chandreswar Prasad Sinha195019526Holiram Deka195219527G. Mehrotra19521953(6)Holiram Deka19541957(7)G. Mehrotra19571958(6)Holiram Deka19581960(7)G. Mehrotra196019658C. S. Row Nayudu19651970(7)G. Mehrotra197019739S. K. Dutta19731973(8)C. S. Row Nayudu19731974(9)S. K. Dutta1974197510M. C. Pathak1975197611M. S. Swamy19761977(10)M. C. Pathak19771978(11)M. S. Swamy1978197812C. M. Lodha6 July 197810 March 197913Debi Singh Tewatia10 March 197930 September 198514P. C. Reddy30 September 19852 November 198615K. M. Lahiri1986198616T. S. Misra1986198817G. M. Lodha1 March 198815 March 198818A. S. Raghuvir6 May 198821 March 199119R. K. Manisana Singh27 January 19941 February 199420V. K. Khanna1 February 199414 February 199721M. Ramakrishna18 June 199712 February 199922Brijesh Kumar12 February 199919 October 200023N. C. Jain20 October 20005 April 200124R. S. Mongia5 April 200110 June 200225P. P. Naolekar10 June 200227 August 200426Binod Kumar Roy 27 August 20045 December 200527B. S. Reddy5 December 200512 January 200728Jasti Chelameswar12 January 200717 March 201029Ramesh Surajmal Garg17 April 201018 June 201030Madan Lokur18 June 201020 December 201131Adarsh Kumar Goel20 December 201123 March 201332Deepak Gupta23 March 201315 May 201633T. Vaiphei21 September 201628 February 201834Ajay Rastogi1 March 20181 November 201835Sanjay Karol14 November 201810 November 201936Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi16 November 201911 October 202137Indrajit Mahanty12 October 202110 November 202238Jaswant Singh15 February 202322 February 202339Aparesh Kumar Singh13 April 202315 July 202540Justice Ramachandra Rao13 April 2025—
Chief Justices # Chief Justice Parent high court Assumed office Left office Term length Appointer 1 Justice Deepak Gupta Himachal Pradesh High Court 23 March 2013 15 May 2016 Pranab Mukherjee Justice T. Vaiphei (acting) Gauhati High Court 16 May 2016 20 September 2016 2 Justice T. Vaiphei 21 September 2016 28 February 2018 3 Justice Ajay Rastogi Rajasthan High Court 1 March 2018 1 November 2018 Ram Nath Kovind Justice Subhasis Talapatra (acting) Gauhati High Court 2 November 2018 13 November 2018 4 Justice Sanjay Karol Himachal Pradesh High Court 14 November 2018 10 November 2019 Justice Subhasis Talapatra (acting) Gauhati High Court 11 November 2019 15 November 2019 5 Justice Akil Kureshi Gujarat High Court 16 November 2019 11 October 2021 6 Justice Indrajit Mahanty Orissa High Court 12 October 2021 10 November 2022 Justice T. Amarnath Goud (acting) Telangana High Court 11 November 2022 14 February 2023 Droupadi Murmu 7 Justice Jaswant Singh Punjab and Haryana High Court 15 February 2023 22 February 2023 Justice T. Amarnath Goud (acting) Telangana High Court 23 February 2023 16 April 2023 8 Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh Jharkhand High Court 17 April 2023 15 July 2025 9Justice M. S. Ramachandra RaoTelangana High Court22 July 2025Incumbent
Judges elevated as Chief Justices This sections contains list of only those judges elevated as chief justices whose parent high court is Tripura. This includes those judges who, at the time of appointment as chief justice, may not be serving in Tripura High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of appointment as chief justice were serving in Tripura High Court but does not have Tripura as their Parent High Court.
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Symbol Key Elevated to Supreme Court of India Resigned Died in office
NameImageAppointed as CJ in HC ofDate of appointmentDate of retirementTenureAs JudgeAs Chief JusticeAs Chief JusticeAs JudgeSubhasis Talapatra Orissa
Notable people
Satya Gopal Chattopadhyay (born 1963), High Court judge (2020–2022)
References
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