Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court is the high court of the Indian states of Maharashtra and Goa and of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It sits primarily at Mumbai, also known as Bombay, with circuit benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Kolhapur in Maharashtra and at Porvorim in Goa. It was inaugurated on 14 August 1862 by letters patent issued by Queen Victoria under the Indian High Courts Act 1861, and it is one of the oldest high courts in India. It has original jurisdiction as well as appellate jurisdiction, and its judgments can be appealed only to the Supreme Court of India. The first Chief Justice, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General of independent India came from this court, 27 of its judges have been elevated to the Supreme Court and 10 have become Chief Justice of India. Its building is part of the Victorian and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai, a World Heritage Site since 2018.