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The Calcutta High Court is one of the three High Courts in India established at the Presidency Towns by Letters patent granted by Queen Victoria, bearing date 26 June 1862, and is the oldest High Court in India. It was established as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William on 1 July 1862 under the High Courts Act, 1861, which was preceded ...
The Indian High Courts Act 1861 [1] [2] (24 & 25 Vict. c. 104) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to authorize the Crown to create High Courts in the Indian colony. [3] Queen Victoria created the High Courts in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay by Letters Patent in 1862.
Bombay High Court: 14 August 1862: Indian High Courts Act 1861: Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Maharashtra: Mumbai: Aurangabad, [A] Nagpur, [A] Panaji [A] 94 71 23 Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya: 4 Calcutta High Court: 2 July 1862: Indian High Courts Act 1861: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal: Kolkata: Port Blair [B ...
He was appointed a judge of the Calcutta High Court in 1874, aged 34, and held office until 1890. [2] In 1886, he became the first Indian to hold the office of Chief Justice in the court, albeit on a temporary basis, [3] and he also served on the Viceroy's Legislative Council. [4]
The three villages (Sutanuti, Gobindapur & Kalikata), particularly in Kalikata, where Calcutta is located, came into the possession of the British East India Company in 1690 and some scholars like to date its beginnings as a major city from the construction of Fort William by the British in 1698, though this is debated (see the court ruling in ...
The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta, was founded in 1774 by the Regulating Act 1773.It replaced the Mayor's Court of Calcutta and was British India's highest court from 1774 until 1862, when the High Court of Calcutta was established by the Indian High Courts Act 1861.
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It was preceded by the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William which was established in 1774. The Calcutta High Court has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Altamas Kabir (in left) with President Pranab Mukherjee at the Valedictory Function of the Sesquicentennial Celebrations of Calcutta High Court.. After completing his M.A. and LL.B. from the University of Calcutta, Kabir was admitted to the bar in 1973 and practiced civil and criminal law in Kolkata at the district court and the Calcutta High Court, Kolkata. [5]