Who has been sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court?

Who has been sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court?

(A) Justice Bela Trivedi

(B) Justice Hima Kohli

(C) Justice Ritu Bahri

(D) Indu Malhotra

Answer: C

Justice Bahri has been sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court by Governor Lieutenant General Gurmeet Singh (Retd.) at Raj Bhavan. The post had been vacant since the retirement of Justice Vipin Sanghi in October 2023. Justice Bahri was serving as a Judge at the Punjab and Haryana High Court before being appointed as Chief Justice of Uttarakhand.

She is the first woman to hold the position of Chief Justice in the Uttarakhand state.

List of chief justices of Uttarakhand

Following is the list of the chief justices of Uttarakhand since its inception on 9 November 2000:

No.NameTerm
ActingAshok Desai9 November 20005 December 2000
1Ashok Desai6 December 200031 March 2003
ActingPrakash Chandra Verma1 April 20034 August 2003
2Sarosh Homi Kapadia5 August 200317 December 2003
ActingPrakash Chandra Verma18 December 200324 July 2004
3Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar25 July 200419 March 2005
4Cyriac Joseph20 March 20057 January 2006
ActingPrakash Chandra Verma8 January 200613 January 2006
5Rajiv Gupta14 January 20061 February 2008
6Vinod Kumar Gupta2 February 20089 September 2009
ActingBipin Chandra Kandpal10 September 200924 September 2009
ActingTarun Agarwal25 September 200928 November 2009
7Jagdish Singh Khehar29 November 200911 August 2010
8Barin Ghosh12 August 20104 June 2014
ActingSudhanshu Dhulia5 June 201430 July 2014
9Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph31 July 20146 August 2018
ActingRajeev Sharma7 August 20181 November 2018
10Ramesh Ranganathan2 November 201827 July 2020
ActingRavi Malimath28 July 20206 January 2021
11Raghvendra Singh Chauhan7 January 202123 December 2021
ActingSanjaya Kumar Mishra24 December 202128 June 2022
12Vipin Sanghi28 June 202226 October 2023
ActingManoj Kumar Tiwari27 October 20233 February 2024
13Ritu Bahri4 February 202410 October 2024
14G. Narendar11 OctoberIncumbent

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