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Allahabad High Court Announces New Bench Constitution from 1 July 2026

The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad has issued a new roster (Constitution of Benches) effective 1 July 2026, allocating subject-wise jurisdiction among Division Benches and Single Benches for both civil and criminal matters. The roster determines which Bench will hear particular categories of cases.

Major Highlights

1. Service Matters Shift to Division Bench-3

One of the most significant changes for government employees and service litigants is that all Writ-A service matters, Transport service matters, State Public Service Tribunal matters and challenges to orders of the Chancellor of Universities will now be heard by:

1. Court No. 29
2. Hon'ble Justice Arindam Sinha
3. Hon'ble Justice Satya Veer Singh

This Bench will also hear Writ-C matters not specifically assigned elsewhere from 1 May 2026 onwards.

2. Special Appeals

Special Appeals have been divided into two categories:

1. Special Appeals (except service matters):Chief Justice's Bench (DB-1)
2. Hon'ble the Chief Justice
3. Hon'ble Justice Kshitij Shailendra
4. Special Appeals arising out of service matters:Court No. 39 (DB-6)
5. Hon'ble Justice S.D. Singh
6. Hon'ble Justice Swarupama Chaturvedi.

3. Important Civil Benches

Some of the important subject allocations are:

1. Land Acquisition, Development Authorities & EnvironmentDB-2
2. Hon'ble Justice M.C. Tripathi
3. Hon'ble Justice Kunal Ravi Singh
4. Local BodiesDB-12
5. Hon'ble Justice Ajit Kumar
6. Hon'ble Justice Garima Prashad
7. Recovery including RERADB-16
8. Hon'ble Justice Neeraj Tiwari
9. Hon'ble Justice Vivek Saran
10. Tax, Excise and Special Appeals arising out of Service MattersDB-6
11. Hon'ble Justice S.D. Singh
12. Hon'ble Justice Swarupama Chaturvedi.

4. Important Single Judge Civil Benches

The new roster assigns:

1. Government Service Writs (2024 onwards) – Hon'ble Justice Manish Kumar Nigam (Court No. 33)
2. Government Service Writs up to 2023 – Hon'ble Justice Anish Kumar Gupta (Court No. 34)
3. Service matters relating to Local Bodies and Cooperative Societies – Hon'ble Justice Dinesh Pathak
4. Consolidation (Writ-B) – Hon'ble Justice Ashutosh Srivastava
5. Revenue matters under the U.P. Revenue Code and U.P.Z.A. & L.R. Act – Hon'ble Justice Chandra Kumar Rai
6. Tribunal matters under Articles 226/227 – Hon'ble Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal.

5. Criminal Division Benches

The High Court has also redistributed criminal appellate work:

1. DB-4Hon'ble Justice Atul Sreedharan
2. Hon'ble Justice Jai Krishna Upadhyay
3. Supreme Court expedited criminal appeals (2023 onwards), sexual offence appeals and recent criminal appeals.
4. DB-10Hon'ble Justice Rajiv Gupta
5. Hon'ble Justice Devendra Singh-I
6. Criminal Public Interest Litigations and Criminal Writs from 16 May 2026 onwards.
7. DB-14Hon'ble Justice Chandra Dhari Singh
8. Hon'ble Justice Tarun Saxena
9. Criminal Writs from 1 January 2025 to 15 May 2026.
10. DB-15Hon'ble Justice Ajay Bhanot
11. Hon'ble Justice Divesh Chandra Samant
12. Criminal Writs up to 2024.

6. Criminal Single Judge Benches

The roster also redistributes:

1. Major Bail Applications
2. Anticipatory Bail
3. Section 482 Cr.P.C./Section 528 BNSS petitions
4. Criminal Revisions
5. Habeas Corpus petitions
6. SC/ST Act appeals
7. Prevention of Corruption Act matters
8. CBI and ED investigations

among different Single Judges according to subject and filing year.

Why This Matters

For advocates and litigants, the new roster determines:

1. which Bench will hear newly filed matters,
2. where pending cases may be listed depending upon subject and year,
3. the allocation of Special Appeals, Service Matters, Criminal Writs, Bail Matters and Revenue cases.

The roster comes into effect from 1 July 2026 and will govern the listing of fresh and pending matters before the Allahabad High Court until further orders.

Find link

https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/event/event_26036_26-06-2026.pdf