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Alok Aradhe

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Hon'ble Chief Justice
Alok Aradhe
Chief Justice of Telangana High Court
Assumed office
23 July 2023
Nominated byDhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Appointed byDroupadi Murmu
Judge of Karnataka High Court
In office
17 November 2018 – 22 July 2023
Nominated byRanjan Gogoi
Appointed byRam Nath Kovind
Acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court
In office
3 July 2022 – 14 October 2022
Appointed byRam Nath Kovind
Judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court
In office
20 September 2016 – 16 November 2018
Nominated byT. S. Thakur
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee
Acting Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court
In office
11 May 2018 – 10 August 2018
Appointed byRam Nath Kovind
Judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court
In office
29 December 2009 – 19 September 2016
Nominated byK. G. Balakrishnan
Appointed byPratibha Patil
Personal details
Born (1964-04-13) 13 April 1964 (age 60)
Raipur, Madhya Pradesh

Alok Aradhe (born on 13 April 1964) is an Indian Judge. Presently, he is Chief Justice of Telangana High Court. He is former Judge of Karnataka High Court, Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Madhya Pradesh High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court and Jammu and Kashmir High Court.

Career

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Aradhe was born in 1964 at Raipur, the then Madhya Pradesh. He passed B.Sc. and LL.B. and started practice in Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur from 1988. He worked on Civil, Constitutional, Arbitration and Company Matters. Aradhe was designated as Senior Advocate in April 2007. He revised the 5th and 6th editions of the book, Principles of Administrative Law by M. P. Jain and S. N. Jain with Late Hon'ble Chief Justice G. P. Singh. Aradhe was a visiting Faculty in Judicial Officers Training and Research Institute of Madhya Pradesh. On 29 December 2009 he was appointed Additional Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and was transferred to Jammu and Kashmir High Court on 16 September 2016. Justice Aradhe served as Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir State Judicial Academy and became the Executive Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir State Legal Services Authority.[1] He took charge as Acting Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High court on 11 May 2018.[2] He was again transferred to Karnataka High Court and took oath as Judge on 17 November 2018.[3][4] He was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court on 3 July 2022 consequent upon the retirement of Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Chief Justice, Karnataka High Court.

In July 2023, Alok Aradhe was nominated as new chief justice of Telangana High Court.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Hon'ble Former Judges of High Court J & K". jkhighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Hon'ble Justice Alok Aradhe". Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Hon'ble Mr. Justice Alok Aradhe". Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  4. ^ Mandhani, Apoorva (11 November 2018). "Centre Notifies Transfer Of Justices Alok Aradhe, Rajesh Bindal And Vineet Kothari". LiveLaw.in. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Chief Justice Alok Aradhe tells Telangana to have State Litigation Policy". The Hindu. 27 July 2023.