Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court Alok Aradhe said on Friday that a bench of the high court would be established at Kolhapur. Apart from the principal bench at Bombay, HC has benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Goa.
📢 BREAKING: Big Win for Western Maharashtra!
— karan darda (@karandarda) August 1, 2025
After years of demand from Western Maharashtra, it’s finally official ✅
⚖️ Bombay High Court Circuit Bench to start in Kolhapur from 18 August 2025!
đź“Ť Approved by Hon'ble Chief Justice Alok Aradhe
📜 Official Gazette Notification… pic.twitter.com/rOZE6lDm6w
A notification issued on Friday read, “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of Section 51 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (No. 37 of 1956), and all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I Alok Aradhe, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, with the approval of the Governor of Maharashtra, appoint Kolhapur as a place at which Judges and Division Courts of the High Court may also sit, with effect from 18th August 2025.”
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