title: Tripura High Court
text: # Tripura High Court
  
  The Tripura High Court is the High Court of the state of Tripura. 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) 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 Chief Justice
  
  The Chief Justice of this Court is Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh. He took oath on 13 April 2023.
  
  ## Former Chief Justices
  
  | S. No. | Chief Justice | Date of Appointment as CJ | 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 |
  