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The
Calcutta
High
Court
is
the
oldest
High
Court
in
India.
It
has
jurisdiction
over
the
state
of
West
Bengal
and
the
Union
Territory
of
the
Andaman
and
Nicobar
Islands.
The
High
Court
building’s
design
is
based
on
the
Cloth
Hall,
Ypres,
in
Belgium.
The
court
has
a
sanctioned
judge
strength
of
72.
The
Calcutta
High
Court
is
one
of
the
three
High
Courts
in
India
established
at
the
Presidency
Towns
by
Letters
patent
granted
by
Her
Majesty
Queen
Victoria,
bearing
date
June
26,
1862,
and
is
the
oldest
High
Court
in
India.
It
was
established
as
the
High
Court
of
Judicature
at
Fort
William
on
July
1,
1862,
under
the
High
Courts
Act,
1861,
which
was
preceded
by
the
Supreme
Court
of
Judicature
at
Fort
William.
Despite
the
name
of
the
city
having
officially
changed
from
Calcutta
to
Kolkata
in
2001,
the
Court,
as
an
institution
retained
the
old
name.
The
bill
to
rename
it
as
Kolkata
High
Court
was
approved
by
the
Cabinet
on
July
5,
2016,
alongside
the
renaming
of
its
two
other
counterparts
in
Chennai
and
Mumbai
However,
the
High
Court
still
retains
the
old
name.
The
neo-Gothic
High
Court
building
was
constructed
in
1872,
ten
years
after
the
establishment
of
the
court
itself.
The
design,
by
then
government
architect
Walter
Granville,
was
loosely
modeled
on
the
13th-century
Cloth
Hall
at
Ypres,
Belgium.
The
seat
of
the
Calcutta
High
Court
is
at
Kolkata,
capital
of
West
Bengal.
As
per
the
Calcutta
High
Court
(Extension
of
Jurisdiction)
Act,
1953,
the
Calcutta
High
Court”s
jurisdiction
was
extended
to
cover
Chandernagore
(now
called
Chandannagar)
and
the
Andaman
and
Nicobar
Islands
as
of
2
May
1950.
The
Calcutta
High
Court
extended
its
Circuit
Bench
in
Port
Blair,
the
capital
of
the
Andaman
and
Nicobar
Islands,
and
in
Jalpaiguri,
the
headquarters
of
the
Jalpaiguri
division
of
West
Bengal.
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