List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay

This is a list of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay in British India. The office was in existence from 1824 to 1862, when the Bombay High Court was founded. The role of the judges of the court was to defend, on behalf of the British Crown, the interests of the people of Bombay against the East India Company.

The Supreme Court was preceded by the Recorder's Court, established in 1798. List #PictureChief JusticeTook office1 Sir William Syer The Asiatic annual register, or: View of the history of Hindustan ..., Volume 11798Died 18022 Sir James MackintoshParliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31 18033 Sir John Henry Newbolt18114 Sir Alexander Anstruther1812 Died 1819 5 Sir D. Evans1820Died 18216 Sir Edward West1822Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 18236 Sir Edward West1823 first year was in the Recorder's Court7 Sir James Dewar18298 Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton18319 Sir John Wither Awdry183910 Sir Henry Roper184011 Sir David Pollock184612 Sir Thomas Erskine Perry184713 Sir William Yardley185214 Sir Matthew Richard Sausse1859became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 186214Sir Mathew Richard Sausse1862186615Sir Richard Couch1866187016Sir Michael Roberts Westropp1870188217Sir Charles Sargent1882189518Sir Charles Frederick Farran1895189819Sir Louis Addin Kershaw1898189920Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins1899190821Sir Basil Scott1908191922Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod1919192623Sir Amberson Barrington Marten1926193024Sir John William Fisher Beaumont1930194325Sir Leonard Stone19431947After Independence26Sir Leonard Stone 1947194827Mahommedali Currim Chagla1948195828Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani1958196529Yeshwant Shripad Tambe 19654 February 19665 February 196631 July 196630Sohrab Peshotan Kotval1 August 196626 September 197231K. Kalyandas Desai27 September 197226 October 197232Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala27 October 19725 October 197833B. N. Deshmukh6 October 197818 November 198034Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande 19 November 198011 January 198112 January 198111 August 198235Dinshah Pirosha Madon 12 August 198230 August 198231 August 198214 March 198336Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar15 March 198314 March 198437Konda Madhava Reddy8 April 198421 October 198538Madhukar Hiralal Kania23 June 19861 May 198739Chittatosh Mookerjee2 November 198731 December 199040Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai7 January 199113 December 199241Manoj Kumar Mukherjee9 January 199314 December 199342Sujata Manohar15 January 19947 November 199443Anandamoy Bhattacharjee21 April 19941 April 199544Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah2 August 19959 December 199845Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal3 February 199928 January 200046Bisheshwar Prasad Singh31 March 200014 December 200147Chunilal Karsandas Thakker31 December 20017 June 200448Dalveer Bhandari25 July 200427 October 200549Kshitij R. Vyas25 February 200618 July 200650Harjit Singh Bedi3 October 200612 January 200751Swatanter Kumar31 March 200730 December 200952Anil Ramesh Dave11 February 201029 April 201053Mohit Shantilal Shah26 June 20108 September 201554Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela15 February 201610 August 201655Manjula Chellur22 August 20164 December 201756Vijaya Tahilramani 5 December 201712 August 201857Naresh Harishchandra Patil 13 August 201828 October 201829 October 20186 April 201958Pradeep Nandrajog7 April 201923 February 202059B. P. Dharmadhikari 24 February 202019 March 202020 March 202027 April 202060Dipankar Datta28 April 202011 December 202261Ramesh Devkinandan Dhanuka28 May 202330 May 2023 62Nitin Jamdar30 May 202328 July 202363Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya29 July 202320 January 202564Alok Aradhe21 January 2025Present

See also List of chief justices of the Bombay High Court

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