Tripura High Court

High Court for the Indian State Tripura

Tripura High Court
Established	23 March 2013; 11 years ago (2013-03-23)
Jurisdiction	Tripura
Location	Agartala, Tripura
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorized by	Constitution of India
Appeals to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	mandatory retirement by age of 62
Number of positions	4
Website	tsu.trp.nic.in/highcourt/
Chief Justice
Currently	Aparesh Kumar Singh
Since	13 April 2023

The Tripura High Court is the High Court of the state of Tripura.^[1] It was established on 23 March 2013, after making suitable amendments in the Constitution of India and North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act, 1971. The seat of the High Court is at Agartala, the capital of Tripura. The first Chief Justice was Justice Deepak Gupta (23 March 2013 to 16 May 2016)^[2] 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 Aparesh Kumar Singh. He took oath on 13 April 2023.

List of chief justices

S. No.	Chief Justice	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement
1	Deepak Gupta	23 March 2013	15 May 2016
2	T. Vaiphei	21 September 2016	28 February 2018
3	Ajay Rastogi	1 March 2018	1 November 2018
4	Sanjay Karol	14 November 2018	10 November 2019
5	Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi	16 November 2019	11 October 2021
6	Indrajit Mahanty	12 October 2021	10 November 2022
7	Jaswant Singh	15 February 2023	22 February 2023
8	Aparesh Kumar Singh	13 April 2023	Incumbent

References

^ "New Chief Justices for Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura high courts". The Times of India. 24 March 2013. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
^ "Tripura, Manipur CJs take oath". Assam Tribune. 23 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.