Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court is the high court of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and sits in Jabalpur. Its institutional line runs back to the Nagpur High Court, which was set up on 2 January 1936 by Letters Patent issued under Section 108 of the Government of India Act, 1935. Those Letters Patent did not lapse when the Constitution of India took effect on 26 January 1950, because Articles 225 and 372 of the Constitution kept them in force. The court therefore carries a colonial-era charter forward into the constitutional order of independent India. Its sanctioned strength is 53 judges, which makes it one of the larger high courts in the country and a main appellate forum for litigants across the state.