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Jharkhand High Court

Data as on 01.11.2026. Source: LawInC analysis of Department of Justice data.

Sitting judges of this Court, followed by judges whose Parent High Court is this Court and who are serving elsewhere, and sitting Supreme Court judges drawn from this Parent High Court. Parent High Court Seniority is kept after a transfer; that is the figure the public monthly list does not present as an all-India picture.

16
Sitting
25
Sanctioned
9
Vacancies
0
Of this PHC, serving elsewhere
1
Of other PHCs, serving here
2
Now in the Supreme Court

Principal seat. Ranchi
Official website. https://jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in/
Chief Justice: Hon'ble Justice Mahesh Sharadchandra Sonak (Parent High Court: Bombay)

Collegium of the Jharkhand High Court

As on 01.11.2026.

RoleJudgeRetires
Chief JusticeJustice Mahesh Sharadchandra Sonak27.11.2026
MemberJustice Sujit Narayan Prasad19.06.2029
MemberJustice Rongon Mukhopadhyay28.12.2029

Next change: Justice Mahesh Sharadchandra Sonak retires on 27.11.2026; Justice Ananda Sen joins the collegium.

Sitting at this High Court (16)

Ordered by sitting-court seniority (SHC-S). PHC-S is the Permanent High Court Number (parent-court seniority, kept after transfer). AIS is All India Seniority as on this date, including Additional Judges. Incoming transferred judges, including the Chief Justice, appear here.

SHC-SPHC-SAISWorking rankJudgeSitting HCParent HCSourceAppointedRetiresRemarks
16999Hon'ble Justice Mahesh Sharadchandra Sonak Chief Justice BarJharkhandBombayBar21.06.201327.11.2026CJ.Jharkhand
223030Hon'ble Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad BarJharkhandJharkhandBar26.09.201419.06.2029
333131Hon'ble Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay BarJharkhandJharkhandBar26.09.201428.12.2029
444747Hon'ble Justice Ananda Sen BarJharkhandJharkhandBar08.04.201614.08.2031
565151Hon'ble Justice Rajesh Shankar BarJharkhandJharkhandBar30.09.201615.12.2032
677878Hon'ble Justice Anil Kumar Choudhary ServiceJharkhandJharkhandService20.05.201717.06.2027
78116116Hon'ble Justice Rajesh Kumar BarJharkhandJharkhandBar06.01.201825.10.2030
89117117Hon'ble Justice Smt. Anubha Rawat Choudhary BarJharkhandJharkhandBar06.01.201824.06.2032
910176176Hon'ble Justice Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi BarJharkhandJharkhandBar18.02.201902.11.2027
1011177177Hon'ble Justice Deepak Roshan BarJharkhandJharkhandBar18.02.201911.12.2029
1116276276Hon'ble Justice Sanjay Prasad ServiceJharkhandJharkhandService08.10.202116.01.2027
1217392392Hon'ble Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava ServiceJharkhandJharkhandService07.06.202231.12.2027
1318557557Hon'ble Justice Arun Kumar Rai ServiceJharkhandJharkhandService05.02.202425.01.2032
1419818818Hon'ble Justice Manoj Prasad ServiceJharkhandJharkhandService23.09.202615.11.2035
1520819819Hon'ble Justice Akhil Kumar ServiceJharkhandJharkhandService23.09.202605.01.2034
1621820820Hon'ble Justice Ram Sharma ServiceJharkhandJharkhandService23.09.202606.07.2030

Judges of this Parent High Court serving elsewhere (0)

Including those serving as Chief Justice or as a puisne judge of another High Court. Their Parent High Court Seniority is unchanged.

None recorded in this workbook.

Judges of other Parent High Courts serving here (1)

Sitting judges of this Court whose Parent High Court is another High Court (transferred in). Their Permanent High Court Seniority (PHC-S) is that of the Parent High Court.

JudgeParent High CourtPHC-S
Justice Mahesh Sharadchandra SonakBombay69

Sitting Supreme Court judges from this Parent High Court (2)

SC seniorityJudgeAppointed to the CourtRetiresRemarks
31Hon'ble Justice Shree Chandrashekhar02.06.202624.05.2030—
37Hon'ble Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh06.10.202606.07.2030—

* Likely to be CJI as per seniority

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