Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh, Chief Justice of Telangana HC
Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh, born on July 7, 1965, into a family of jurists, Justice Singh earned a BA (Honours) and an LLB from the University of Delhi.
Hyderabad: Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh, Chief Justice of the Tripura High Court, has been transferred to serve as Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court.
On Monday, the Central Government, after receiving the President’s approval, issued a notification formalising Justice Singh’s transfer. The Supreme Court Collegium had, in late May, proposed his move to Telangana.
Simultaneously, the Collegium recommended that Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul of the Telangana High Court be transferred to the Calcutta High Court, and that Senior Judge Tadakamalla Vinod Kumar of Telangana be moved to the Madras High Court. The Centre issued separate notifications effecting those transfers as well.
Born on July 7, 1965, into a family of jurists, Justice Singh earned a BA (Honours) and an LLB from the University of Delhi. He enrolled as an advocate in 1990 and practiced at the Patna High Court until 2000, then at the Jharkhand High Court from 2001 until his judicial elevation. As counsel, he appeared before the Supreme Court in numerous cases.
Justice Singh was appointed an Additional Judge of the Jharkhand High Court on January 24, 2012, and confirmed as a permanent judge on January 16, 2014. After a decade on that bench, he assumed office as Chief Justice of the Tripura High Court on April 17, 2023.
His maternal great-grandfather, the late Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha, served as the sixth Chief Justice of India. His maternal uncles, Justices Bisheshwar Prasad Singh and Shiva Kirti Singh, were Supreme Court judges, and his maternal grandfather, the late Justice Shambhu Prasad Singh, was Acting Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
