Mukti(1977) Capital Punishment-Jammu and Kashmir High Court

The High Court of the Jammu and Kashmir state was established on the basis of the Order No. 1 issued by the Maharaja on 26 March 1928. The Maharaja appointed Lala Kanwar Sein as the first Chief Justice and Rai Bahadur Lala Bodh Raj Sawhney and Khan Sahib Aga Syed Hussain as Puisne Judges. The seats of the High Court were Jammu and Srinagar. On 10 September 1943, the Letters Patent was conferred on the High Court by the Maharaja.The seat of the court shifts between its summer capital Srinagar and winter capital Jammu. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 14. The current Chief Justice of the court is Barin Ghosh. He assumed the charge on 3 January 2009.