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The Delhi High Court, with current working strength of 36 judges and 40 percent vacancy, has ranked fourth among the 25 High Courts across the country.
As per the data released by the Ministry of Law and Justice till April 15, the Delhi High Court faired worse than the national average.
Out of the total 1,122 judge posts in 25 High Courts across the country, 357 (31.8 percent) posts were vacant.
The Allahabad High Court topped the list, with nearly half of the judge’s posts lying vacant, followed by the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, which registered 44 percent vacancy. The Orissa High Court ranked third with 42 judges posts lying vacant.
The national capital shared the fourth spot with Jharkhand and Manipur, registering vacancy of 40 percent each.
Delhi fared worse than the national average in terms of appointments also.
Since 2014, a total of 51 judges have been appointed to the Delhi High Court, with the highest 17 appointments made in 2022. No appointments were made in 2015, 2020 and 2024.
The Delhi High Court, having a sanctioned strength of 60 judges, accounted for 5.3 percent of the total number of High Court judges. However, the appointments made in this High Court since 2014 amounted to only 4.7 percent.
Some of the recent developments leading to the reduction of strength at the Delhi High Court include two superannuations and three transfers in the past two months.
These include the transfer of Justice Yashwant Varma following the alleged recovery of unaccounted cash from his official residence on March 14. On March 24, the Supreme Court Collegium recommended the repatriation of Justice Varma to his parent High Court at Allahabad. The government also promptly cleared the transfer of the third senior-most judge.
In March 2025, the Apex Court Collegium proposed the transfer of Justice DK Sharma to the Calcutta High Court, which was soon cleared by the Central government, amid protests by the Bar bodies in Kolkata.
On March 28, the Union government approved the repatriation of Justice Chandra Dhari Singh to the Allahabad High Court. Though the Supreme Court Collegium proposed the transfer in November, the government took four months to clear the same.
In March 2025, Justice Rekha Palli and Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta retired from the Delhi High Court.
Considering the scheduled retirement of
two more judges later this year, the High Court would be left with 34 judges, with a vacancy of more than 56 percent, if no fresh appointments are made by that time.
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