Satish K. Agnihotri (born 1 July 1956) is the former Chief Justice of

Sikkim High Court The Sikkim High Court is the High Court of the Indian state of Sikkim. The history of the court can be traced back to 1955, when the High Court of Judicature (Jurisdiction and Powers) Proclamation, 1955 was issued to establish a High Court in S ...

. Earlier he has served as a judge of the

Madras High Court The Madras High Court is a High Court in India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is located in Chennai, and is the third oldest high court of India after the Calcutta High C ...

Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Tamil Nadu, the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and territories of India, Indian state. The largest city ...

and previously as the judge of

Chhattisgarh High Court The Chhattisgarh High Court is one of the High Courts in India located at Village Bodri, Bilaspur with jurisdiction over the state of Chhattisgarh. It was established on 1 November 2000 with the creation of New state of Chhattisgarh upon th ...

at Bilaspur

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...

. He was sworn in by Acting Chief Justice R.K. Agarwal on 26 September 2013 as a judge of the Madras High Court. On 13 February 2014, he assumed the charge as the acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. On 22 September 2016, Agnihotri took charge as the Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court after Justice

Sunil Kumar Sinha Sunil Kumar Sinha (born 7 July 1954) is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court. Career Sinha was born at Ambikapur in 1954 in a lawyer family. He studied in Government Multipurpose Higher Secondary School, Ambikapur an ...

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1956 births Living people Chief Justices of the Madras High Court 20th-century Indian judges Additional Solicitors General of India Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court 20th-century Indian lawyers Chief Justices of the Sikkim High Court {{India-law-bio-stub