The Sikkim High Court is the High Court

High Courts of India

India's unitary judicial system is made up of the Supreme Court of India at the national level, for the entire country and the 21 High Courts at the State level. These courts have jurisdiction over a state, a union territory or a group of states and union territories...

 of the state of Sikkim

Sikkim

Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayan mountains...

. The history of the court can be traced back to 1955, when the High Court of Judicature (Jurisdiction and Powers) Proclamation, 1955 was issued to establish a High Court in Sikkim. In 1975, Sikkim became a part of India, and the court, which was earlier the national court, now became a state court.

The seat of the court is at Gangtok

Gangtok

Gangtok is the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim. Gangtok is located in the Shivalik Hills of the eastern Himalayan range, at an altitude of . The town, with a population of thirty thousand belonging to different ethnicities such as Nepalis, Lepchas and Bhutia, is administered...

, the administrative capital of the state. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 3.

The Chief Justice

Hon'ble Shri Justice Sonam Wangdi is the Acting Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court following the resignation of P D Dinakaran.

List of former Chief Justices

#	Chief Justice	Term
Acting	Rajinder Sachar	16 May, 1975–7 May, 1976
1	Man Mohan Singh Gujral	7 May, 1976–14 March, 1983
Acting	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	15 March, 1983–16 December, 1983
2	Mohal Lal Shrimal	17 December, 1983–3 January, 1985
Acting	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	4 January, 1985–20 January, 1986
3	Jugal Kishore Mohanty	21 January, 1986–4 January, 1989
Acting	Ripusudan Dayal	5 January, 1989–19 January, 1990
4	Braja Nath Misra	20 January, 1990–8 November, 1992
Acting	Ripusudan Dayal	9 November, 1992–19 January, 1993
5	Surendra Nath Bhargava	20 January, 1993–10 February, 1996
Acting	Malay Sengupta	11 February, 1996–14 February, 1996
6	Krishna Murari Agarwal	15 February, 1996–26 October, 1996
Acting	Malay Sengupta	27 October, 1996–26 August, 1997
7	Kanniappa Arumuga Thanikkachallam	27 August, 1997–26 September, 1997
Acting	Malay Sengupta	26 September, 1997–26 December, 1997
Acting	Anup Deb	27 December, 1997–2 February, 1999
8	Ripusudan Dayal	3 February, 1999–17 May, 2003
9	Radha Krishna Patra	9 July, 2003–23 November, 2004
10	Binod Kumar Roy	30 September, 2005–26 December, 2006
11	Ajoy Nath Ray	27 January, 2007–30 October, 2008
12	Aftab Hussain Saikia	7 March, 2009–7 April, 2010
13	Barin Ghosh	13 April, 2010–8 August, 2010
14	P D Dinakaran	9 Aug 2010 - 29 Jun 2011

External links

• The Sikkim High Court website