Bombay
High Court
The Bombay High Court is one of the premiere High Courts in the Country. It
has Appellate Jurisdiction over the State of Maharashtra, Goa , Daman &
Diu. In addition to Bombay Bench it has benches at Aurangabad, Nagpur, Panaji(Goa).
In Bombay it has Original Jurisdiction in addition to Appellate. The Bombay
High Court has sanctioned strength of 62 judges.
This blue-basalt building in early English Gothic style was designed by Col.
J. A. Fuller. It has central tower standing almost 180 ft. Two octagonal towers
with their spiralets holding at their pinnacles two carved figures of Justice
and Mercy are situated to the west of the central tower.
History of Court
The Legal history of Bombay may be said to have begun in 1661, when it became
a British possession. The Town and Island of Bombay was received by the British
as a part of the dowry of the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza, sister
of Alphonso VI, the then Portuguese Monarch, when she married King Charles II
.
Bombay then was little more than a small fishing village consisting of a few
straggling huts of Kolis, its indigenous inhabitants; and its harbour, destined
in the course of years to develop into the greatest and most important commercial
seaport in the East, sheltered only a few fishing boats. Charles II transferred
it to the East India Company in 1668 for an insignificant annual rent of 10
Pounds.
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