HIGH COURT OF DELHI : NEW DELHI
The Roster of Sitting of Hon’ble Judges of this Court, effective from 1st July, 2013 is as under:-
Division Benches (Civil Division)
DB-I
Hon’ble Mr Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed
(Acting Chief Justice)
Hon’ble Mr Justice Vibhu Bakhru
DB-II
Hon’ble Mr Justice Pradeep Nandrajog
Hon’ble Mr Justice V.K. Rao
DB-III
Hon’ble Ms Justice Gita Mittal
Hon’ble Ms Justice Deepa Sharma
DB-IV
Hon’ble Mr Justice S. Ravindra Bhat
Hon’ble Mr Justice Najmi Waziri
DB-V
Hon’ble Mr Justice Sanjiv Khanna
Hon’ble Mr Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva
DB-VI
Hon’ble Ms Justice Reva Khetrapal
Hon’ble Ms Justice Pratibha Rani
1. PILs
2. Letters Patent Appeals (other than those relating to
Armed Forces)
3. Writ petitions challenging constitutional validity of any Act,
Statutory Rules or Regulations.
4. Appeals under the Chartered Accountants Act
5. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Writ Petitions challenging orders passed by the High
Court on Administrative side
2. Writ Petitions (Service) including matters arising out
of orders of CAT.
3. Criminal Appeals of 1998
4. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.
1. Writ Petitions (Service) relating to Armed Forces
2. Letters Patent Appeals relating to Armed Forces
3. Criminal Contempt Petitions
4. Criminal Contempt References
5. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Writ Petitions relating to MTNL, MCD & NDMC.
2. Writ Petitions (Land Acquisition)
3. First Appeals from Orders (Original Side)
4. Contempt Appeals
5. Writ Petitions (Tender, AIIFR & BIFR, DRT, DRAT &
Lokayukta).
6. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Writ Petitions (Tax)
2. All Tax matters including Income Tax Appeals
3. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.
1. Regular First Appeals (Original Side)
2. Execution First Appeals (Original Side)
3. Writ Petitions (Co-operative Societies)
4. Company Appeals.
5. Appeals against the orders of Family Courts
6. Regular First Appeals from orders of the Copyright Board.
7. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
 Division Benches (Criminal Division)

DB-VII 1. Criminal Appeals (except of 1998)

(Bench “A”)*
Hon’ble Mr Justice P.K. Bhasin
Hon’ble Mr Justice V.P. Vaish
2. Criminal Writs including those relating to habeas
corpus & preventive detention
3. Death Sentence References with connected Appeals
4. Criminal Leave Petitions
5. Regular hearing matters of the above categories

DB-VIII 1. Criminal Appeals (except of 1998)

(Bench “B”)*
Hon’ble Mr Justice Kailash Gambhir
Hon’ble Ms Justice Indermeet Kaur
2. Criminal Writs including those relating to habeas
corpus & preventive detention
3. Death Sentence References with connected Appeals
4. Criminal Leave Petitions
5. Regular hearing matters of the above categories

DB-IX 1. Criminal Appeals (except of 1998)

(Bench “C”)*
Hon’ble Mr Justice G.S. Sistani
Hon’ble Mr Justice G.P. Mittal
2. Criminal Writs including those relating to habeas
corpus & preventive detention
3. Death Sentence References with connected Appeals
4. Criminal Leave Petitions
5. Regular hearing matters of the above categories

* Pending and fresh matters of all the categories would be distributed equally (as far as possible) between the
three benches – A, B & C-- on random basis through the computer.
 Single Benches (Civil Jurisdiction)
Hon’ble Mr Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra
Hon’ble Mr Justice Manmohan
Hon’ble Mr Justice V.K. Shali
Hon’ble Mr Justice Manmohan Singh
Hon’ble Mr Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
Hon’ble Mr Justice Suresh Kait
Hon’ble Mr Justice Valmiki J. Mehta
Hon’ble Mr Justice V.K. Jain
Hon’ble Mr Justice A.K. Pathak
1. Civil Writ Petitions (MCD, NDMC and P.P. Act , Elections)
2. Civil Contempt Petitions.
3. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Civil Writ Petitions (DDA)
2. Civil Writ Petitions relating to Railways, Cantonment
Board, Electricity/DVB, DJB, MTNL
3. Civil Writ Petitions (STA)
4. Civil Writ Petitions relating to Land Reforms
5. Civil Writs Petitions relating to Nationalized Banks &
Financial Institutions
6. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.
1. Regular Second Appeals
2. Second Appeals from Orders (Rent)
3. First Appeals against Orders (other than M.V. Act)
4. Land Acquisition Appeals.
5. Transfer Petitions (c).
6. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Civil Misc. Main (Other than MV Act)
2. Civil Revisions
3. Rent Control Revisions
4. Matrimonial cases
5. Execution First Appeals
6. Execution Second Appeals
7. CMI
8. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Regular First Appeals (other than Land Acquisition)
2. Regular hearing matters of the above category.
1. MACT Appeals
2. First Appeals from Orders (MACT)
3. Civil Misc. Main (MV Act)
4. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Civil Writ Petitions (Service)
2. Regular hearing matters of the above category.
1. Civil Writ Petitions (Misc.) including those involving
Statutory Authorities, Government of India, GNCTD, DTC,
Urban Arts Commission, Airports Authority of India,
etc.,.
2. Civil Writ Petitions (Education)
3. Regular hearing matters of the above categories
1. Civil Writ Petitions (Labour)
2. Regular hearing matters of the above category.
 Single Benches (Criminal Jurisdiction)

Note: All cases relating to sexual harassment shall be listed before Hon’ble Ms Justice Hima Kohli only.

Hon’ble Ms Justice Hima Kohli 1. Bail Matters.

2. Criminal Appeals & Criminal Writs (from 2006 to 2008).
(Judge-in-charge) 3. Criminal Writs of the year 2013
4. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.

Hon’ble Ms Justice Veena Birbal 1. Bail Matters.

2. Criminal Writs, Criminal Revision Petitions, Criminal
Appeals & Criminal Misc. Main cases (upto Year 2002).
3. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.

Hon’ble Mr Justice Siddharth Mridul 1. Bail Matters.

2. Criminal Appeals & Criminal Writs (from 2009 to 2010).
3. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.

Hon’ble Mr Justice J.R. Midha

1. Bail Matters.
2. Criminal Misc. Main Cases (from 2007 to 2012)
3. Criminal Revision Petitions (from 2007 to 2012)
4. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.

Hon’ble Mr Justice Sunil Gaur 1. Bail Matters.

2. Criminal Misc. Main Cases from the years 2003 to 2006
3. Criminal Revision Petitions from the year 2003 to 2006 and
of 2013
4. Regular hearing matters of the above categories

Hon’ble Mr Justice S.P. Garg 1. Bail Matters.

2. Criminal Appeals of the years 2011 , 2012 and 2013
3. Criminal Misc. Main Cases of Year 2013
4. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.

Hon’ble Ms Justice Sunita Gupta 1. Bail Matters.

2. Criminal Appeals & Criminal Writs (from 2003 to 2005)
3. Criminal Writs of the year 2011 and 2012
4. Regular hearing matters of the above categories.

Company Jurisdiction

Hon’ble Mr Justice R.V. Easwar 1. Company Matters

2. Regular hearing matters of the above category

Original Jurisdiction (Civil)

Hon’ble Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar 1. Original Side matters of ‘F’ Court, from the year 2004
onwards.
Judge-in-charge 2. Final matters of ‘F’ Court from the year 2008 onwards.
(‘F’ Court)

Hon’ble Mr Justice Vipin Sanghi 1. Original Side matters of ‘A’ Court, from the year 2004
onwards.
2. Final matters of ‘A’ Court, from the year 2008 onwards.
(‘A’ Court)
 Matters under the Indian Arbitration Act, 1940 and
Hon’ble Mr Justice Rajiv Shakdher
Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 (including Finals).
(‘D’ Court & “G” Court)

1. Original Side matters of ‘E’ Court, from the year 2004

Hon’ble Ms Justice Mukta Gupta onwards.
2. Final matters of ‘E’ Court from the year 2008 onwards.
(‘E’ Court)

1. All Original side matters upto the year 2003, (excluding

Hon’ble Mr Justice M.L. Mehta Arbitration matters).
(‘B’ Court) 2. All Original side “Finals” (excluding Arbitration matters)
upto the year 2007.

Hon’ble Mr Justice Jayant Nath 1. Original Side matters of ‘C’ Court, from the year 2004
onwards.
(‘C’ Court) 2. Final matters of ‘C’ Court from the year 2008 onwards

Notes:-

1. Mentioning of urgent matters will be before Hon’ble the Acting Chief Justice.

2. Matters other than part-heard, presently pending before various Benches shall stand transferred to the
respective Benches as per the above roster.

3. Specially directed matters may be assigned by Hon’ble the A c ti n g Chief Justice to any of the above
Benches or any of the Hon’ble Judges sitting singly or in specially constituted Benches.

4. Regular/final hearing matters would be listed chronologically so that old matters can be given priority in
disposal.

5. Hon’ble Judge-in-charge, Original side will mark matters other than Arbitration matters to ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘E’
and ‘F’ Courts.

6. Hon’ble Judge-in-charge (Single Benches-Criminal Jurisdiction) will mark the matters which cannot be
listed before roster benches or are directed to be listed before other benches.

7. Fresh Bail Applications shall be equally distributed amongst the single benches hearing criminal
matters on random basis.

8. Fresh Criminal Appeals shall be equally distributed amongst the roster benches of Hon’ble Ms
Justice Hima Kohli, Hon’ble Mr Justice Siddharth Mridul, Hon’ble Mr Justice S.P. Garg and Hon’ble Ms
Justice Sunita Gupta on random basis.

9. Fresh Criminal Writs shall be equally distributed amongst the roster benches of Hon’ble Ms Justice
Hima Kohli, Hon’ble Ms Justice Veena Birbal, Hon’ble Mr Justice Siddharth Mridul and Hon’ble Ms
Justice Sunita Gupta on random basis.

10. Fresh Criminal Misc. Main Cases and Criminal Revision Petitions shall be equally distributed between the
roster Bench of Hon’ble Ms Justice Veena Birbal, Hon’ble Mr Justice J.R. Midha and Hon’ble Mr Justice
Sunil Gaur.

Badar Durrez Ahmed

(Acting Chief Justice)
24.06.2013